Quotes About Film

I did many things in my life - I painted, and I'd play guitar, and wrote and did many things. But it all seemed to come together in making movies, and almost accidentally.

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.

I don't really look like people in films; I look like people in paintings.

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.

I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about film. But my idea is not to paint paintings that will decorate somebody's house.

An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.

I never thought 'Mein Hoon Na' will do so well in Pakistan. Whenever I meet Pakistanis in London or the U.S., they have so much love and affection for me because of 'Mein Hoon Na,' which was my most criticised film in India.

I do good work in Pakistan. I am an A-lister actor. So, even in Bollywood I want to work with an A-lister.

India Pakistan' will be on the lines of 'Oru Kal Oru Kannadi' and 'Kalakalappu.'

I've been offered roles in Indian films, but I wanted my debut film to be from Pakistan. A lot of people think that I've made my music career from India, but that's not true. I made it big in Pakistan, and then I went across the border.

I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.

If I have to choose between a Bollywood film and Pakistan film, it may sound cliched, but I will go with the script first. And if both the scripts are equally good, then I will choose a Pakistan film.

I want to be able to bring out stories like 'Verna,' as well as stories which are of the modern and new generation like 'Ho Mann Jahaan,' which is a film I did of the youth of Pakistan.

In the Pakistani entertainment industry it's very, very difficult to get your foot in the door if you don't have a network in Karachi or Lahore or in the film circle.

I've given 'Bin Roye' everything, and I'm hoping that people enjoy something different coming from Pakistani cinema.

I'm the first Indian actress to shoot for a Pakistani film in Pakistan.

I think, for me, a way to really come up with new ideas and come up with new ways of writing music is to create a unique sound palette or soundscape for all the films I'm working on.

If they made films in Palm Beach, actors and actresses would be much better dressed.

Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a film opportunity came up, but it's a unique place, and you can reach saturation point. For me it was a place where creative desire and ambition meets desperation. It's in the air; it's palpable - I just didn't want to be around that.

I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.