Quotes About Films

I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.

I think the more experience I have working on films, the more I can shed that character rather than carrying around that heavy weight.

I've played heavy characters in my first two films.

When an artiste says that, after two heavy films, let me do a light one, somewhere they want to balance it out for the audience, not for themselves.

I am super lucky to have a resume which has all kinds of filmmakers and films and hence experiences as a person and actress for me.

I can't watch formulaic films and hence, won't write or make one such film.

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

My father Arun Ahuja was an actor, and he did films as a hero.

Kurosawa is my hero, and I've taught courses on his films, and I love what he does, and 'Rashomon' is, I think, his second greatest film after 'Ikiru.'

I have done over 300 films of which I've played the heroine in 50.

In films, usually we see romantic relationships between a hero and a heroine all the time. But we rarely see love between the older generations.

I will say 'I love you' in the same way on any medium. We have this hierarchy in our heads between TV and films, and I know that for a fact because I have experienced it first-hand.

My parents were in high school and college in the '80s, so let's just say I've heard some stuff, man. We listen to a lot of music and watch lots of great films, but the real context they provide from that era is about politics.

In English films, they concentrate more on background scores and the music will be the main highlight of movie. When it comes to our local language, we have comedy, emotion, hero buildups, etc., and the music for each will be different from the other.

I'm in so many Charles Bronson films because no other actress will work with him.

My films have become bilingual. When everyone saw 'Chennai Express,' they said it was a bilingual. But I am proud that 'Chennai Express' is the highest-grossing Hindi film down South.

Art is collaboration: we are artists all over the world. I believe that people are always going to watch Hindi films... that's never going to die, but I think it's amazing that collaborations like that are happening.

I would definitely love to do Hindi films but I'll choose films carefully.

It is my good fortune that I am the first Sikh to be playing lead roles in Hindi films.

I've shot many films in Hindi and some in Bangla in Kolkata. It's always a pleasure to be part of the city.

I had worked in Hindi films like 'Jaago,' 'Abra Ka Dabra,' 'Koi Mil Gaya,' but 'Desamuduru' was a different experience.