Quotes About Cinema

'Nuvvla Nenila' is an out and out love entertainer. The screenplay of the film is very good and director Nakkina Trinadha Rao has handled the film superbly.

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.

I love hanging out with my friends; I love to run. I box. I'm a huge movie buff.

'Logan Lucky' is an experiment. The problem that I think needs to be addressed is, what has happened to movies for grown-ups made by people who are still interested in the idea of cinema?

I would happily do any Malayalam or Bengali film, if the script is good and I get a good challenge as an actor.

I have a hard time making movies that affirm life and say life is a good and happy place. That's not true about the world.

I do like a lot of the '70s movies. I love Charles Bronson in 'Hard Times.' All my favorite movies where ones from yesteryear. The '70s was a good era. I love all those.

I think when I was younger, I used to sort of long to be a part of films that were really gritty and hardcore in a way.

I'm among the hardcore fans of 'Blade Runner.' 'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite movies of all time. It's a movie that is linked with my love and passion for cinema.

Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There are interesting movies being made now, but it's harder and harder to make them.

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

I particularly love watching 'Hardware' with a young audience.

I think down South, the film industry has the most hardworking, passionate filmmakers.

I have always loved cinema more than the cricket. I don't think there is any harm in taking a different field.

Harold and Maude' is a film I just keep finding myself rewatching.

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

I saw 'Spacehunter 3-D.' It gave me a headache.

For me, what counts the most is my film. I can express myself and therefore take care of myself through my art. Cinema not only heals me, but it can change the world.

What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.

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

'The Graduate' should have won best picture over 'In the Heat of the Night.'

In 2008, I just decided that there will come a time when I am dead and gone, and I only have a body of work to show. That was when I did films like 'Last Lear' and Deepa Mehta's 'Heaven On Earth.' They were serious roles.

Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.

I was always the second heavy.