Quotes About Film

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

Eventually, when I got the 'Meadowland' script, I saw something in it that made me think I could make something special out of it, something that could work with my style. Emotionally, I connected to it. I thought, 'If I feel this way just imagining it, maybe we can make that happen on screen and make people feel something when they watch it.'

I think there's something special about getting a moment perfect or near perfect. In a film, you can do that.

We began in indies, and maybe we'll make another smaller film again sometime.

Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.

People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors.

And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

There is a somewhat different struggle when one comes from a film family. If you don't work hard enough or are not talented, you won't make it.

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.

I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.

I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.

I've been friends with Jaco Pastorius's son since 1996 - Johnny Pastorius, the eldest son. And I remember when I first met him, I said, 'Some day, you've gotta make a film about your father,' because his influence is so broad.

My son had seen 'Dum Laga Ke Haisha,' but he wasn't happy about it because my father bullies me in the film.

My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.

Well yes, my son was bar mitzvahed last April, after I made this film.

Sometimes being an actor is being a song in someone else's mixtape, so I really understand why more and more actors are making films of their own.

'Basmati Blues' deals with a great social issue, GMOs, but it's told through love and song and dance.

Whether a film is breaking into song and dance or if it's something like 'Whiplash,' I find it incredibly rewarding, and I'm drawn to those stories with a musical component.

I would love to feel satisfied doing a Hindi film when there is no restriction of commerce, which is song and dance, item numbers.

The kind of films I do and I've done don't have song and dance sequences.

The moment any film has song and dance sequences - where any time any character can start singing and dancing without any explanation - it can turn into a senseless film.

'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.