Quotes About Cinema

I want to do masala movies. I love the Bollywood films that we are known for. I love the whole song and dance act.

'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.

Generally a heroine appears in a couple of songs in skimpy costumes and disappears. I am fortunate to do such a lengthy role in 'Dhanam.'

With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color things in more and you're allowed to overreach yourself a little bit more, and it's great fun.

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen.

Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.

I think audiences are quite sophisticated.

'Beloved.' That's an amazing film and I'm sorry more people didn't see it when it came out.

Movie theatre gives a soulful experience.

It is good that people are experimenting with cinema. They are trying to do serious and soulful cinema but such films don't stay in theatres for over a week. People ultimately go and watch Salman, Shah Rukh and Amir Khan films.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.

I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.

You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life.

I think it's a big deal to have a great soundtrack for a movie.

I like soundtracks and I like film.

I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result.

Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

We were such movie nerds - I hate to say this, but yeah, we would just listen to movie soundtracks growing up.

Old images and films are my main source of inspiration.

The problem in South is we don't have access to much of Hindi cinema.

In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.

Whether the film is a Hindi film or in a South Indian language, I don't think it matters.