Quotes About Film

I love challenge. I love to be afraid before a film, before acting. I think always I want to experience fear. I've become addicted to this feeling.

I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me.

What challenges me is this - I want to walk out of a film with the experience of having done a film, not with a feeling that I have sleepwalked through it.

I can say, hands down, 'Annapolis' is the most challenging film I've ever taken on.

I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.

For me, Chanel just makes sense - like a story or a film. It's part of my life.

A lot can change in the editing room.

A film is not going to change the world. But if it can do that to individuals on an individual level, I think it's a magnificent movie.

I've always shot on film, but the times are changing.

With 'Agent Vinod', there was a lot of chaos with schedules and the film took a year and a half to shoot.

Working with Chaplin was a marvelous experience.

But I'm not, I'm legitimate, I'm a legitimate character actor of the theatre and film.

I charged Rs 101 for the rights to my biopic.

I learnt a lot from the directors with whom I have worked like Sudhir Mishra in 'Daas Dev,' Prawaal Raman in 'Main Aur Charles.'

I've always loved the Marx brothers and Charlie Chaplin.

I have been following Charlie Chaplin since my childhood days. He is an inspiration to everyone.

I feel every film has its own charm and gets made for a purpose.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

I really think the key to a film is the chemistry of people.

My chemistry with Salman goes long back, and we have a great equation. Doing a film with him is no less than a dream.

Obviously, as an actor, you have to embrace your imagination all the time, but when you're doing one of these films, you have to embrace your most childlike imagination - a sense of wonder and uninhibited playfulness.

I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.

I've built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody's Chinese in the films.