Quotes About Cinema

People didn't suddenly wake up one morning and unanimously say 'I'm fed up with midbudget dramas. I'm only going to see action tent poles from now on!'

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.

I tell you this: if I was in the house with those people in the Bergman flicks, I'd walk right out, much less pay $5 to see them.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

I don't go to horror movies. I walked out of 'The Exorcist,' man.

Some of the best movie experiences I've had are when I just walked by the theater and decided to see a movie I hadn't heard anything about and bought a ticket, because that's really the first time you can experience it untainted.

One would marvel on the screen the way Shammi Kapoor walked, Dilip Kumar cried, or seeing Dev Anand's style. And then, one day, you are in the same space with them. It's very unreal.

Films I've really liked are when you've walked out and you're still in that movie for a while. That's virtual reality for me, to go into a theatre, especially with the use of sound - a subconscious thing that's underestimated. I remember seeing 'Blue Velvet' when I was 15, and half the audience walking out, but I thought my life had changed.

I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him.

The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!'

After doing the Bengali 'Antar Mahal,' I felt I should work with all Indian languages.

I like watching Bengali film DVDs with sub-titles.

When I have time, I would like to do films in my language but I would also like to star in Bengali and Marathi films too.

I watch all kinds of Indian cinema. There are many good films in Bengali, Marathi and Malayalam.

I would even love to do a Bengali film if a good offer is made to me.

I'm very happy that whenever we talk about Bengali cinema anywhere in India, people talk about me with a lot of respect.

I got my name, fame, identity and even my National award from Bengali cinema.

I think that the best part of being an Indian actress is that you can be a part of so many different films in different languages.

I am a big fan of movies from the '70s.

I was a big fan of all the 'X-Men' films growing up.

I'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s.

I was a big fan of Luc Besson and obviously Ridley Scott.

I was a big fan of Greta Garbo and that era of movies, so I dreamt watching those movies.