Quotes About Film

For the audience, actors carry out specific roles of men and women through the character that they play out on screen. The director on the other hand is not doing a gender-specific job. So, it is irrelevant if the person who makes a particular film is a man or a woman.

'American Sniper' is a film that erases history, spectacularizes violence, and reduces war and its aftermath to cheap entertainment, with an underexplained referent to the mental problems many vets live with when they return home from the war.

Men need to change their mentality. Talent has nothing to do with gender. If you're making a good film, you should always support that.

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

I made my debut on big screen, and many thanks to my mentor T. Rajendhar for introducing me to films.

After watching 'Pagal Nilavu' I decided Mani Ratnam should be my mentor and joined him.

Tulsi Ramsay has been my mentor. In 1982, he and his brother Shyam Ramsay, came to me for 'Purana Mandir.'

Besides being one of the most ambitious projects I have worked on, 'Mercury' has also helped me enhance my skills as a director.

Music is an essential part of any film, but when it comes to Mercury' it actually became a medium of communication.

You are at the mercies of the dailies. With an indie you don't have that.

Everyone who makes a film is at the major distributors' mercy.

I've always liked the idea of merging esoteric art cinema with down-and-dirty exploitation films.

I have many dear friends in the film industry, but finally, the roles come to me on merit, not because of personal equations.

Meryl Streep's really smart, and she's a film animal, and she knows that.

Meryl's Donna embodied the spirit of ABBA and 'Mamma Mia!' in the first film.

I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.

I love Nic Cage and Meryl Streep.

My mother never saw any of my films until she was in her late 80s, and that was 'Music of the Heart' with Meryl Streep.

I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.

I'm interested in Jeff Bridges. I love that guy. And I did like Carey Mulligan in 'An Education.' And I love Meryl Streep, but if they could ban 'Julie & Julia,' I'd be in favor of that.

I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.

I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

The biggest difference between the two is how intimate the theatre is. Film is so different because, when youre on set, even if a joke lands, no one is going to laugh, because nobody wants to mess up a take.

Films with a message just make me laugh.