Quotes About Film

There are many outsiders in Bollywood and you'll find people from different parts of the world and cultures coming together.

I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To see how many really outstanding movies Columbia made, and all together, is kind of eye-opening.

Mandy' came from grief and depression. I wanted this to be an outward volcanic expulsion of the emotion of my first film.

Someone who directs a film, they have to see the overall picture, and they have to get the best performances out of the actors.

With a series, you build the character as you go. When you've got a shorter project or a film, you know the overall arc from the beginning.

The only thing darker than 'Overboard' is 'Micki & Maude,' the bigamy comedy from 1984.

I feel like coming from a film background does give me an advantage over others because access is the hardest part to overcome. The fact that I can meet a Karan Johar is something that is available to me because of my parents.

If I could find a way to make a film that takes you into the mind of a fighter, where you have 36 minutes of combat with so many different emotions, so many highs and lows, so many obstacles to overcome, I'd do that.

I'm a person who takes criticism personally and that had put doubts in my mind about doing a film. I tried to overcome it and give acting a shot.

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

I actually find it's one of the things that lifts me up every day, coming to work and just seeing people always overcoming. That's something that I think a film set does so well all the time.

Shooting on film is great because it imparts discipline: What do you need to see so you're not finding it in the camera. When I'm shooting, I have the scene in mind, where I'm going to have certain lines. I learned to overlap and to shoot more than I think I need. That was the learning curve.

Of course, an Oscar nomination would have added considerably to the film's business abroad. But it has already made nearly Rs 150 crore. It has done stupendous business overseas. We did a business of Rs 80 crore when we took 'Devdas' to Cannes.

I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime.

A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

I'm always flabbergasted and overwhelmed by the audience a film reaches.

Completely overwhelmed, it is huge project to be working on 'Singh Is Bliing.' How everyone is enjoying the film is everything to me. Definitely, it is the biggest milestone of my career.

It feels good to be back in the Kannada film industry and I'm overwhelmed by the love of the people here.

That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

fifty years later, part of the film's continued appeal lies in the fact that the mere mention of the title conjures up audience members' memories of watching the film for the first time. It's not just the film itself that is remembered, but the remembrance of watching it as a child.

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.