Quotes About Films

I can't remember any of the films I've done. You go from one to another, and they all blend in to a big mass. You remember the costumes because you remember how you felt - that Western I did with Kevin Costner where I wore the big hat and the two guns, I remember that.

When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.

Western films don't do very well in India.

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in western Utah - was a really small school. It wasn't developed. We didn't have the funds to do anything like that, but I did act all through high school in films because Disney Channel would shoot movies out there.

A lot of people in India are not that into non-Indian films or Western films.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

Bilingual films come with a certain inbuilt practical problem with respect to the setting of the story and the dialect.

I try not to be someone who's preaching a message with my films or anything like that.

The older I've gotten, the more I've gotten a little precious about music-related films as it comes to biopics. I kind of don't want to see it; I'd rather see a documentary. And this is just coming from me. I love music documentaries; I kind of don't want to see people embodying those people.

'AVP' is not trying to be 'Alien' or 'Aliens,' and it's not trying to be 'Predator.' Those are genius movies.

A good deal of my effort goes into the selection of films, because these things cannot be just predicted, so I am careful about the movies I finally do. Next year, too, I will have four or five films where I play different roles.

I love challenging films, really. I'd prefer to do some gritty, challenging roles. That would be awesome and really fun.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

I prefer doing feature films.

I don't like these commercial films I do. I'd far prefer to do more artistic films, more cult films.

I did enjoy theater. I actually do prefer making films and television, but it was a learning experience for me, because I got into television at 5 and film at 11, and theater was something I completely bypassed.

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

I'm trying to break a lot of prejudices with my every film.

There is a regular format for songs in commercial films, such as a hero introduction song, but in 'Premier Padmini,' the songs and the background score aid the script.

I've played around with the notion of making a series on the premise of 'Alps' because it's one of the films no one saw.

I want to make my kind of films but make them work commercially, too. When my presentation meets the director's imagination, the result will be great.

There have been number of films that have been made with Mumbai as a backdrop or a character. 'Company,' 'Life In A Metro,' 'Ek Chalis Ki Last Local' - they all have presented Mumbai in a different manner.

People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.