Quotes About Cinema

Time in the theatre is real, time in the cinema illusory. The theatre is primary, consequently it is first of all SPACE. The first plays took place in space and in a monumental slice of actual time.

Chantajes no», pensaba. «Lloremos cara a cara, pero no ese hipo barato que se aprende en el cine.»

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is.

Romantic scenes are a part of Bollywood cinema, and if the script demands some kind of intimacy, I have no issues with my daughter doing those scenes.

Film is a very intimate medium.

Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.

I like to believe that intimate moments between characters don't need to be relegated to independent films.

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.

Mahesh Bhatt introduced me to the world of films.

I had a very late introduction to films. We didn't watch a lot of films while growing up in Kolkata.

I completely work on the basis of my intuition. I don't think I premeditate a success formula. There is no formula to make a successful film.

One night I was sick and I watched the old black and white 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' And it freaked me out.

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

If I were to ever make a lot of money, I will invest in films.

A lot of money gets invested in making a film.

The Indian film industry does not believe in investing financial resources in scripts.

I had one scene in 'Invisible' with 12 actors delivering dialog at the same time.

'Slumdog' initiated a chain of events like going to Cannes and being invited to the Cairo Film Festival, which changed my perspective of cinema and of being an actor forever.

I had felt for some time that audience involvement with a film should begin with its first frame.

Football is very cinema friendly and the intense competition that the game involves only charges up the atmosphere. This cannot be achieved with cricket.

I want to make the iPhone of movies.

In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.