Quotes About Cinema

I'm totally disinterested in politics.... Yes. I live outside of the political world. Because I have no control. Because all my interest is in cinema, and not even all of cinema.

I'm scared of scary movies.

if it weren't for the fact, ladies and gentlemen, that I never go to the movies. Indeed, I've never even been inside a cinema, not even when I was a child, when it was fashionable to spend Sundays in one of those dark places.

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

greatest films ever made originate largely in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s—a period when Hollywood worked

greatest films ever made originate largely in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s—a period when Hollywood worked under the "heavy hand" of the Hays Production Code.

When you're working in cinema, you often have a very, very compressed schedule - very few weeks to just kind of go through that whole process of reflection and refining - and it has to be done.

As cinema is a reflection of the world around us, with more women coming into the mainstream business, more women narratives will grab the limelight.

I'm lucky enough to live in London, which is a boiling pot of every kind of language and background and demographic and sexuality and gender, and yet most of what we're seeing in the cinema is not reflective of that.

I always say that cinema reflects life, not the other way round.

I like to write a piece of music that reflects how I felt about a film as opposed to, here's this action scene; here's this set piece.

Everywhere I go today, people talk about Bengali cinema. I completely refuse to accept that Bengali filmmakers are not making good films.

Yes, I had bid goodbye to films, but then I am a big fan of Amol Palekar. There was no way I could've refused him.

The term 'new queer cinema' and the films of mine that were associated with that term are from a very, very different time, one almost entirely defined by the AIDS era. It was a very different social and cultural regard for the lives, the experiences, the worth of gay people.

I believe Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and I hold him in high regard.

I grew up with a deep regard for cinema.

The good thing about the audience in Karnataka is we watch films in all languages from every region.

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

Instead of doing a B or C grade Hindi film, I would much rather do an A grade regional language film.

Good cinema has no regional or linguistic boundaries.

Whatever I have been doing in regional cinema, is restricted to the region.

I would love to do regional cinema, provided the role is exciting enough and artistically challenging.

I did Tamil film, 'Mehandi Circus.' I want to do Bangla cinema and other regional and foreign languages.

Bollywood works as hard as regional cinema makers.