Quotes About Film

I would love to do a biopic on Madhubala. She was very pretty. I really admire her.

I admire anyone who does stage all their life. It's so tough, and it also made me really appreciate how lucky I am with film. You have to do your own makeup with stage, and you have to do so many un-glamorous things.

I'm a big admirer of S21, and I really also like Rithy Panh's work in general.

Each success gives me the adrenaline to move to another film.

I don't get affected whether a film does well or it doesn't. But you do want your films to do well as you put in a lot of hard work.

I judge the importance of my character by seeing how much the movie will be affected if you take my role out. If it does affect the film, then my character is important and if it isn't then I wouldn't do the film.

But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.

There are as many quality African-American actors and actresses as Caucasians, but it seems that they get a lot more opportunities.

I always say it's hard to cast an African-American film sometimes because those kinds of actors just aren't out there.

'Ex Machina' was the first film I'd auditioned for. I didn't have an agent.

I'm just trying to be aggressive and make plays, but you watch film and you see that you can get off the ball get it to somebody else and let them make a play for you.

I would love to do an action film. In college, I have played a lot of aggressive characters.

After I saw 'Katha Parayumbol,' I agreed to do the Tamil adaptation of the film.

I love Al Pacino.

I loved 'About Schmidt'. I like Alexander Payne's work a lot.

If I get a call from Imtiaz Ali or Zoya Akhtar to star in their films, I won't think twice.

The first film that I can remember seeing where, like, I just couldn't stop watching it - and it didn't necessarily make me want to be a director because I was so young, but it made me know that that's what I wanted to be doing - was 'Alien.' And I saw that when I was probably just over 10 years old.

There's a movie called 'Pod People' that has a weird little anteater alien. That was a good alien.

I watch movies all day. I am a heavy movie head.

I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.

I've worked alongside some very good directors and some not so good.

In an alternative life, I would have loved to work in film - I love film.

I started in theatre; the first bit of drama I did was amateur dramatics, up until I was 19. Then the TV and film opportunities came along, but now I was just ready to come back.

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.