Quotes About Film

There are two aspects around which the dynamics of Bollywood revolve - chivalry and chauvinism.

I don't have much power to make many films, but I do have the power in what roles I choose.

Whatever happens, happens for the better. I was meant to do 'Raabta.' Every film has its destiny, and it's the film that chooses you.

I have never been someone who chooses a film according to the language. Since I am comfortable with Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam, the scope of the film is all that matters to me.

I have more control of the material if I produce. I can be much more active in choosing the writer, shaping the script, casting and editing the film.

I became extremely choosy about films.

Of course, I am choosy because I want to do good cinema.

Taking up the choreography for an awards night is completely different from choreographing a song for a film.

I did not choose 'Kaksparsh,' the film chose me.

I've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them.

They didn't have the money to keep Christopher Lee long enough to play his scenes with me.

I would love to work with Christopher Nolan, 100 percent.

I want to be part of great cinema. That is my only aim.

I love Giuseppe Tornatore, the guy that did 'Cinema Paradiso.'

For me, cinema is happiness.

Tommy Lee Jones

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

I try to read as much as I can - all the time, really. And I absolutely love going to the cinema, especially during the day.

Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.

I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

I only watch films in the cinema. I'm old fashioned. I'm a lost cause.

Both 'Gulabo Sitabo' and 'Udham Singh' are cinematic experiences; nothing is less, nothing is more. It's all about creating good cinema.