Quotes About Cinema

As the film historian and critic David Thomson has asked: What are movies without male lust?

Psychoanalysis [...] overestimates the linguistic character of the unconscious. Dreaming is a pagan cinema.

A jolly feel good film with Vadivelu playing the comedian along with Rajni at his humourous best is 'Chandramukhi.'

'Iron Man' and 'Iron Man 2' are as Jon Favreau films as you can see.

I think interviews should happen after a journalist sees a film. You have a lot to talk about then.

The definition of political cinema is one I don't agree with, because every film, every show, is typically political in nature. Political cinema is simply the brainchild of bad journalists.

I'm very interested in cinema that explores emotional journeys and where you can use everything at your disposal cinematically to locate you inside someone's head and their emotional landscape.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

I have never judged a film by its budget or stars.

The film that I go on about and drive people mad is 'Don't Look Now' with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. It's the best married couple acting you have ever seen in any film, the way they are together.

I used to play a lot of cricket at the junior level. Then I did my engineering and got interested in singing and playing the guitar. Yes, I'm a musician. From music it was a step away from cinema.

Probably around junior high, I became obsessed with films.

Film fests are an opportunity to see different kinds of films that you usually don't get to watch. When I'm part of a jury, then I get to judge films, but otherwise I attend festivals to watch two or three films a day and network with a gathering of cinema lovers from all over.

To have a song work for the movie, it can't just be written apart and shoved in. It's got to come out of the action. It's got to talk about the characters, not the story: it has to augment that action.

When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.

Justin Lin has just been exceptional with what he does with that vehicular action.

I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.

First I tried karate but I didn't like it because it was boring. There was no action like you see in the movies.

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time.

I am very keen to do a film that's female-led.

But I'm very keen to work with directors such as Imtiaz Ali, Zoya Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Abhishek Chaubey, Anurag Kashyap and Abhishek Kapoor.

I know my audience, and they, in turn, know my cinema. When I pick a subject, it's for a family audience. I shoot and edit my films keeping them in mind. I'm dead sure about the product that bears my name.

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.