Quotes About Movies

I watch lots of movies, both English and Hindi.

I never really thought it was so important to work in Hindi movies.

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

You go to the movies to be transported. That's the responsibility of filmmakers and the people that hire the filmmakers - to try and find new dreams we can all share together.

In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

I'm a big Hitchcock fan, and I love anything by Almodovar.

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.'

Directors have good and bad movies. My father also made some flop movies, and he had bigger hits, too. That should not determine anything.

The Prosenjit-Rituparna jodi is a huge contribution to Bengali cinema as we have delivered several hits.

My films like 'Shahjahan,' 'Youth' and 'Pokkiri' were major commercial hits.

Books and movies are kind of my two great loves. I don't have too many other actual hobbies. That's pretty much it.

I started watching movies more carefully, watching actors - the way they act, the way the movie is filmed, just as a hobby in a way, but also something to progress to maybe in the future.

There's a lot of guys who use their likeness - to do movies, and do other business stuff, but not too many guys are actually making product. I'm making product, it's a different thing. A lot of guys are holding up Coke cans and get paid a lot of money to do that, but no one's making a Coke can. I'm the guy that's trying to make the Coke can.

There will always be big companies making big movies. But making film and distribution is changing in front of our eyes. I'm not sure what the future holds for this industry.

I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.

I did have good movies but they did not work in the Box Office... I did 'Holiday,' 'Aksar,' 'Plan' they were all good movies but they did not work.

I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.

But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore are two of the most charming A-listers in Hollywood.

Hollywood was never great for children.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.