Quotes About Films

I've been a huge fan of Kate Winslet, and have watched all her films. She is such a solid actor and I look up to her.

Actors matter only if you have great content. There are so many actors who work only with good content, either the films will not work or they will get audience for a day or two if they are not backed by solid script.

I was here all the time doing good films like 'Yeh Tera Ghar Yeh Mera Ghar,' 'Kurukshetra' and 'Khiladi 420' but since they weren't solid hits, people didn't talk about them much.

I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.

Usually the films that I do are released theatrically in foreign markets. In the U.S., they're either picked up as HBO premier films or Showtime first-runs. In today's market, in America, you need at least $50 million for your budget to go to the big show, and I'm not quite there yet. But keep watching - maybe someday I will be.

Someday I will get married, and I should be able to watch my films with my children, mother-in-law, and father-in-law.

I have a request to make to Pawan Kalyan sir on behalf of all his fans. He will definitely succeed whichever field he chooses. But we fans can't bear it if he says he won't do films anymore. We will always be hopeful that he will do a film someday.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.

I love movies.

Good films and good performances will help you go further in your career. You can't get too far by just choosing leading lady roles.

'Alien' is a landmark. One of the really good science-fiction films.

I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.

When I was late for shoots and press meets, my films did well.

I do films that I'd also like to watch as an audience member.

It's an institution that was born with my brother Chetan and me. I did it for him. I was becoming a big star in the late 1940s, and he needed a company to make films. So when he left Navketan, I brought in Goldie, and when Goldie left, I carried on alone. No book on Indian cinema is complete without mention of Navketan.

I grew up hearing about Raj Kapoor and K. Asif and the way they used to make films lavishly. We are dream merchants and we have got to sell dreams, which are lapped up by all.

It's true that films are made on mere calculations such as fight and item song. If the audience is lucky enough, there will be some story.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

I don't believe films should have a message, but 'Saleem' does.

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.

In Mexico, there are good filmmakers, but they didn't always have the opportunity to show their work. But since 'Amores Perros,' many of these filmmakers had the opportunity to show their films, and they have a newfound energy for cinema.

I have made films on humor of poverty because I have lived in a lower middle class family.