Quotes About Cinema

Content-driven films can make money - something that is gripping, is a journey of revelation and is relevant is cinema.

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

India is the country which makes the maximum number of movies. Cinema is one of our religions.

I'm often cast as religious figures, good and bad, such as 'Kingdom Of Heaven.'

I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.

I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.

I have not met a Filipino actor who didn't dream of working on an 'FPJ' remake.

Remakes have been done forever. People talk about 'Scarface' and don't even know it was a remake.

I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film.

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.'

Today people remember me for 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander.' The film is the most memorable thing for me in my life.

I can remember when 'Pulp Fiction' came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the impact that it had.

I remember, when I was working in Bengaluru, Rajinikanth's film 'Sivaji' was releasing, and I wanted to watch it the first day, first show. My manager did not want me to take the day off, and I made up excuses stating that there was an issue at home and I had to go.

There are so many things from movies that are remembered, that are just looks on people's faces or incredible vistas or beautiful pictures. That is a very important part of cinema.

I would like to do films where I will be remembered after people leave the theatres.

Look at Sridevi. She is going to be remembered forever for her films.

Nobody ever remembers the worst film they ever saw.

I want to remind people that we create films for the MMFF as gifts to them, not to see whose entry is better or which film earned more at the tills.

We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.

I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living rooms of the world.