Quotes About Films

I like being outdoors. I like action films.

I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.

I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.

Nothing in my background has anything to do with films. In that sense, I am a complete outsider.

I will always make films that champion outsiders, because I still feel like one, even though I'm now governor of the documentary branch of the Academy.

Many of the heroines from outside Karnataka have worked in my films, but the attitude and adjusting nature of top South Indian actress Nayantara is outstanding.

Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it.

As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

Horror films are art, it's all make believe. It's great if a filmmaker can try to push boundaries and see how much an audience can take and see what happens. It's fun to be able to do that.

I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art.

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if it earns its name. You have to be honest, that's the only thing.

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films … like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

I was always a performing arts kid in general - but I felt like my ultimate goal was to be an actress and be in films.