Quotes About Movies

I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.

With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.

You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.

I've grown up watching 'Mawaali,' 'Himmatwalla,' and my love for masala movies started from there, and ever since, there's no looking back.

When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.

During the season, I'm not really on too many other things - I'm just focused on basketball. But I'm a big lover of music and I watch a lot of movies.

If anything, I would say the movies I've done have been very low paid. TV work and voice-overs have been more lucrative.

I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.

I've always had very macho taste in movies.

I loved 'Truly Madly Deeply' and all those 1990s romcoms because you had great actresses like Juliet Stevenson and Emma Thompson starting out.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

Most of my work has been independent movies outside the mainstream system.

I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood.

Mainstream movies used to be more adventurous because people went to them.

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

Making movies, even though it's a business, is also an art, and sometimes you don't hit the bull's-eye.

I prefer movies because the money is better and certainly because you really know where you stand when you are making movies, and I have made a lot of them: 50-something - I don't know.

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

I wish I had more control over my career, but making movies is something you do with lots of people.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

I've always been interested in making movies.

I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.

I'm living in Hollywood, and I'm making movies, but it goes beyond me. If my family is not doing very well, or even OK, you want them to be better.

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.