Quotes About Film

You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

I don't like message movies either.

I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film.

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

I hate Danny Kaye movies.

Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.

I choose my films carefully. I have done movies that are sensitive, which deal with some issue and are a mirror of society.

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

I wrote 'Mud' for Matthew McConaughey and had never met him.

I did a film on Muhammad Ali before he was champion. I was there when he became champion in 1964. I was happy to be able to document the development of a real American hero.

I was making a film on Muhammad Ali in 1964, and I went to Miami to film everything around the fight for the world championship with Sonny Liston. I had the good luck of flying down to Miami, and there was one empty seat, and the guy sitting next to this empty seat was Malcolm X.

I never knew anyone who was cloned, but I played one in 'Multiplicity.'

People of Mumbai respect me a lot and they are well aware of my contributions towards the film industry.

Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.

Let me be honest - I might do a franchise film like 'Golmaal' if it comes my way. Eventually, we are all in Mumbai to become bigger stars, not better actors.

Mumbai was magical, which I was really surprised by, and I got an insight into the world of Bollywood while hanging out with some Bollywood film stars while there.

Every good looking and handsome boy goes to Mumbai first to struggle; he doesn't focus on Punjabi cinema.

The Mumbai film industry has definitely a bigger reach. But considering the rich content of work in many Bengali films, even by new directors, there has to be a better financially backed distribution model for films here.

I think a film is made with each and every cast member. If the casting is strong, half our job is done. Then, even the mundane line is delivered in a great fashion.

'Muppets' is incredibly analog, 'Alice' is very digital.

Ryan Murphy's 'Hollywood,' about the beginnings of the film industry, made me laugh and cry.