Quotes About Cinema

When I made 'Hera Pheri,' there was a huge poverty in Hindi cinema for comedies.

Tamil films have to be faster than a Malayalam film but not as fast as a Hindi film.

Most of Hindi films I made are remakes of my own films.

I love old Hindi songs, black and white films.

I am very happy for the respect shown towards my father, Raj Kapoor-ji, the greatest showman of Hindi cinema.

The main difference I'd say is that European cinema has always used less music than American cinema for historical reasons.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

You can watch any Hitchcock film and be blown away.

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

I would have loved to have been in a Hitchcock movie.

Truffaut loved Hitchcock.

I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.

I'm a big Hitchcock fan, and I love anything by Almodovar.

You can't write off Prakash Mehra and Manmohan Desai hits.

The Prosenjit-Rituparna jodi is a huge contribution to Bengali cinema as we have delivered several hits.

The first HIV movie in India, 'Nidaan,' was done by me which at that time nobody dared to even try.

Any holiday my group of friends and I managed to get, we would catch the early morning train to Lucknow to watch films.

I come from Holland, and there's a lot of nudity in film there.

I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

I love old Hollywood. I love our early film culture.

But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.