Quotes About Films

I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them.

I told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch.

To really have craft, you must be able to repeat something as one has to do in films.

I will keep repeating it until people get it - misogyny and violence and everything that's bad in our life and society should be reflected in our films. It's the glorification that is wrong.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.

The only thing that I find repetitive is the number of marriages I have arranged in films. That is one thing I stay away from in real life.

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.

'The Xpose' was just an experiment, a small step into Bollywood. It wasn't my acting debut, as reported in Mumbai. I've done a couple of Punjabi films.

A lot of celebrities promote their films to entertainment reporters and feel like they need to entertain them.

There's a reality that the market is changing, and the stories of the Latino community need to be out because there's a huge audience in need of films that would represent them.

Romcoms are challenging, but I'm hungry for drama.

I am a hungry actor, and I want to do good films.

I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.

Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.

Those big films are scary things. There's so much money behind those things. There's that hype. You enter a machine.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.

I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.

My father is my idol, and I have grown up watching his films. He is my biggest influence and inspiration. I have learnt a lot from him, and I am who I am because of him. I'm extremely grateful to him for that.

After my graduation from Sydenham College with a degree in Commerce, I was spotted by late Sunil Dutt, my idol, to act in films.

Films, more for children, have a greater appeal on the people. It is through this medium that any illogical thought among people can be controlled.