Quotes About Cinema

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.

Anyhow, even though I have this home theater, I love going out to the movies. Movies are meant to be experienced together.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.

I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

I love going back in time, and the only time you can really do that is on a movie set.

I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.

I've grown up watching cinema from around the world, and there are films that have scenes that are far steamier than what we are required to do on screen.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

Changes are required as far as scripts are concerned. People need to open up and experiment in story lines. But we don't have good script writers, producers or directors. The Punjabi industry lacks cinema knowledge and professionalism. It is the saddest part.

I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.

Well, I have no problem with 3-D but I don't think it's necessarily a blanket requirement for every film.

I think because I've maintained my residence in New York, those kinds of films have been more accessible.

I haven't died in a movie in a while,'The Departed,' 'Body of Lies,' 'Revolutionary Road,' 'Shutter Island' and 'Inception.' I guess I did die in 'The Departed.'

Movies used to be called the 'flicks' because they flickered badly: because 16 or 18 frames a second - which was those hand cranked movies on a single-bladed shutter - was really badly flickering.

Our films appear to have become realistic once again. 'Thondimuthalum Driskakshiyum' is a fine example. I am glad that I could also contribute to this phase of Malayalam cinema with 'Shutter.'

I took to cinema because I found cinema was the medium for what I wanted to say through 'Shutter;' it was something beyond the scope of a play.

I'm shy by nature and don't like talking about myself, and would let my films do the talking.

Cinema was my passion and I am sure that if you are talented, nobody can sideline you because you are just a comedian.

If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

I was looking to be a part of commercial cinema and that was when I signed 'Jodi.'

Ram Gopal Varma saw my pictures and called me for a meeting. He signed me on to play Vishnu Manchu's wife in one of his movies. He did not give me dialogues, instead he asked, 'What will you do if you were Vishnu's wife and this is the scene?' He explained the scene and I gave my inputs.

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.