Quotes About Films

Kollywood allots big budget only for commercial films. Bollywood film industry is straightforward that way. When compared to Bollywood, Kollywood is fake. They keep churning out the same films.

Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart.

The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening.

he had detailed, well-thought-out proposals for a campaign of films, posters and press publicity to win the people to these ideas. Collins had political skills and powers of oratory of which the least that can be said is that he was better equipped than most men to make his dreams come true.

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean.

If you're going to make a lot of films about a particular group of animals, you might as well pick one that's fairly common. And octopus are: they live in all the oceans. They also live deep. And I can't say octopus are responsible for my really strong interest in getting in subs and going deep, but whatever the case, I like that.

That's what I want to continue to do: really odd films, with interesting filmmakers.

I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples.

To be frank, my career as an actor was not even taking care of my lifestyle. Doing two odd films a year wasn't making me financially secure.

A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

I have been offered several Bengali films. Due to destiny and good luck, 'Noukadubi' will be my first.

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.

I was offered 10-12 films during the time that we were working on 'Paani.'

I took a break from TV for about three-four years. During that time, I had to let go of some of the best shows that were offered to me, as I wanted to focus on films. It was believed that if you are seen too much on TV, you won't get films.

I was offered a lot of romantic and comedy films.

As an actress, all I can do is choose from the films I am offered.

I think people need to understand the amount of emotions I can pull off. I want films I'm offered to have these dimensions.

I have been offered roles in mainstream films which have not been interesting to me. They have been too insignificant.