Quotes About Film

My brother advises me on what kind of films to do, which directors to work with and which scripts have potential.

As a family, we ensure we sit together and listen to scripts. But the choice of doing a film is entirely mine.

I am open to writing more, and not just film scripts but maybe also a book.

Film scripts are more important for me than the language of the film.

You need good scripts to approach stars.

What matters is whether the audience likes the film or not. Everything else is secondary.

If you spend 90 seconds with Ryan Reynolds, you know he's Deadpool. There is no one else on the planet that has any business being that character, ever.

If you have a five-second role in a film, and those five seconds make sense, then that is what matters.

I got this secretive, very secretive email from my agent saying, 'You have an audition for Marvel, no one's letting us know what the name of the film is, but are you available on this day? That's all we know.' And I went, 'OK, well, I think it will probably be 'Thor,' because Taika's got it.'

I am not that ambitious to do films. I am very happy and secure doing TV.

I have a better and more secure future in films, but I want to give back to the state that made me what I am.

I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.

Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world.

I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

Social distancing on a film set is an oxymoron. It can't happen, it won't happen. We can keep lying to ourselves though.

I feel with 'Don 2' I got an opportunity to do a very good action with the kind of pace that I would like an action film to have.

With all my films, the pace is not very fast, and so people get bored with them and comment that they're just people talking in rooms and all that.

I always feel on film you have to earn a ballad, because it's a different kind of pace.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

If I could pick any story idea or script I had that I wanted everything to go exactly right for, it would probably be 'Pacific Rim.'

'Namastey London' is my favourite Bollywood film, it is a complete pack - it has entertainment, drama, emotion and comedy.

Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing.

Akshay Kumar is a senior in the industry, and I consider myself lucky to be working with him. Each film of his opens to a packed house. Today, a film will sell only if you have a story. The audience is smart and won't be taken for a ride. And I'm confident about my movies.