Quotes About Films

With theatre, I found that one thing that I am good at and it gave me so much confidence. I feel like I have found my calling and that's how films happened to me as well.

I like telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera.

I have done films only because my roles were good in them. It has got nothing to do with being associated with any particular camp.

Theatre has a strong connect with the audience and gratifies me as an actor, but the canvas of films is huge!

'Man Push Cart' is very similar to 'Take Out.'

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

People do tell me to keep doing more and more films to cash in on the success of 'A Aa.' But I want to be clear first before I do anything.

I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.

While I was making 'Coraline' I barely got to see any films at all, so I've got a lot of catching up to do.

When people watch good films they want other films to be of that calibre as well particularly when you cater to the same core audience.

I have been extremely cautious in selecting my films.

I don't get starstruck by Hollywood celebrities as I'm not into films.

Take Punjab 1984' or Sardari Begum' or Khamosh Pani,' the Punjabi mother I have played in films are all of a certain age and I have won accolades, something I did not get as a young actress perhaps.

I always believed that you can make challenging films, but they should be fiscally responsible.

I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

I can remember, after I started doing films, my mum began going to more arthouse films. She went to see 'Edward Scissorhands' and phoned me up and said: 'What was that all about? He had scissors on his hands.' Good question. I think she should review films on Channel 4.

The Indian television industry has catapulted into a huge business. Films, however, have not lost one shred of charisma or commercial lucrativity.

I want to create my own charity, getting inner-city kids to read more. And I want to produce my own films.

I don't do films for charity any more. In the past, I've done that for friends or people who couldn't not afford to pay. But now money matters.

I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.

I want to make the kind of films that Charlie Chaplin did.

Every Bond girl has a certain charm, and sometimes - almost every time - that charm is more important than beauty. In the films and in life.

I was passionate about films, but was scared to tell that to my parents. Soon after my engineering, I got a job and was earning well. But I wanted to chase my dreams and get into movies.

I write scripts, I read scripts, I meet people who chat about their scripts. So honestly, I don't feel bad if I don't act in a film, as long as people are making great films.