Quotes About Films

I stay in Chennai but my heart is beating for Kannada films.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

I want all of my films to belong to me.

I wanted to belong to the films which were trying to say something.

Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

I do endorse brands: brands that I believe in individually, brands that I use, brands that I am proud to sell. But I wouldn't do that for my films because that's something I do separately. What I do with my films is something I am extremely passionate about.

It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

I love gritty drama. I'm passionate about films and drama that make you think - hard-hitting, gravelly characters.

Everyone has different goals. For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge me, and that I'm going to be growing from. I don't ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.

We used to do four or five films at a time and were not able to experiment with too many things. But, the heart was in the right place and everybody worked passionately. We had wonderful directors like Bimal Roy, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Raj Kapoor.

I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity.

I had no patience for films. It was only after I met Shah Rukh that I learnt to enjoy his passion for cinema.

Indian cinema needs all ingredients like emotion, action, sentiment and humour; it's not easy. It's easy to make a Hollywood film, as it goes with a pattern. Our cinema needs a lot of commercial ingredients. That's why I don't do many films.

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

I loved early Paul Newman films. He just had this effortless charm.

I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.

For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or 1960. I played Wilde in one, and Robert Morley was in the other. As it turned out, at that particular moment there was no market for any Oscar Wilde movie at all.

Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films.

I want to develop women-oriented films because, in most of the films, 70 per cent of the focus is on heroes and the rest on the heroine.

I watch a lot of Hindi films. I live in Hyderabad, where 60 per cent of the people speak Hindi.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

With excessive digitisation, now, everyone is making films, which is good, but the makers think that they will quickly make films in digital and bag satellite rights but television channels buy satellite rights of notable films only. If we made fewer films a year, percentage of hits would be better.

I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.