Quotes About Film

The entire journey of 'Love Sonia' is unforgettable.

Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.

Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.

The truth is 'Akaash Vani' was not a young film. The second half of the film was quite mature. It's unfortunate that not many people have seen the film, so I am still associated more with 'Youth Centric Films'.

I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.

When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.

With 'Mirzya,' we went deep into folk music. The film, unfortunately, did not do well because it was not marketed well. But we got freedom to do the music the way we want.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.

I was super happy when I went to Cannes Film Festival - I got a full sponsorship from my favourite Danish brand, Mads Norgaard.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

My choices in films are spontaneous.

I'd rather do spontaneous and silly work like ThunderAnt than have somebody's film on my shoulders.

I think being attracted to mistakes is one of the things that film can capture in a way that theater can't. Film can capture a moment of spontaneous life that will never be captured again.

Despite the limitations of the bulky 16mm camera and 10-minute film magazines, 'The Anderson Platoon' feels as spontaneous and fresh as any films that have come out of the Afghan or Iraq wars.

I am a spontaneous actor. I don't like giving more than two takes.