Quotes About Cinema

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.

Ram Gopal Varma is a most noteworthy talent and has given us some very valuable iconic films. I enjoy working with him.

I couldn't be working in a bank and launch a clothing line. It's only because cinema gave me a lot of access that I have been able to launch a clothing line.

Camphor Cinema is nothing but an extension of family - courteous, kind, joyous and focused. It is like a close-knit family working hard for a celebration.

Dil Raju's first film 'Dil' was with me and we were supposed to work together after that, but it didn't happen. Now, after 15 years we are working together and Dil Raju's passion for cinema is still intact.

Lack of dignity and equal opportunity at workplace for women in cinema is a truth that needs role reversal.

I spent half my life in a boarding school where we were shown only the sporadic wholesome classic like 'The Sound Of Music.' So, I am not familiar with most of the works of the acting greats in Bollywood, Hollywood, or Tamil-Telugu cinema.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

I have done 33 films in one year, for which I hold a Guinness Book World record. Plus I've done songs for all languages from Hindi to Malayalam, Punjabi to Telugu, and Kannada to Oriya.

Till 2010, there was one national award for Best Music Direction. I have received it thrice - for 'Sagara Sangamam,' 'Sindhu Bhairavi,' and 'Rudraveena.'

I'm married to films, my life revolves around movies and I want to work here till I die.

'Joji' is a special film, the story will keep audiences hooked till the end.

As a filmmaker, I tilt towards stories which are crime-led.

I want to be in a Tim Burton movie so bad.

Eighty-five per cent of the time, people want to talk about 'True Romance.' That's the film I've made that really seems to have stuck with people.

I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

I want to make timeless movies.

The Brat Pack is timeless.

To do a film with Govinda, who is a legend in that genre, whose timing is impeccable was challenging.

I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.

I think that we all fantasize about that teeny tiny time in the film industry when women ruled, back in the '40s.

I can't watch 'Titanic' without breaking down within the first 10 minutes. You know, when it got re-released in 3D, I went to see it again. My mom came to pick me up from the cinema, and I was just bawling my eyes out.

If it's a Hindi film, it has to have a Hindi title.