Quotes About Cinema

I really like suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.

Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.

My favourite movies are 'Jawbreaker' and 'Heathers.'

Most movies aren't any good.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

From where I sit, I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble, they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot more money.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

I love working in multiple languages, and these days good films are being made across the country.

I saw 'The Exorcist' at the cinema when I was quite young, maybe 14. When I went back home, my mum and dad weren't in, so I had to wait for them on the main road. I were too scared to enter the house.

I'm fortunate to have a home in both Mumbai and Delhi, and to be a part of cinema and the political world. Both are different and engaging.

I was lucky to land up in Mumbai when serious cinema was just beginning to flower.

The taste of a multiplex audience in Amrawati is very different from the taste a multiplex audience in Nariman Point, Mumbai.

It was only after moving to Mumbai that I was completely seduced by Bollywood.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.

'Raaga' is one of those movies which is very special for any music director to compose music for.

I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

My films are musically inclined.

I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

My grandmother introduced me to musicals and Fred Astaire and Cary Grant and all the American comedies and classics.

I hate musicals, especially film musicals.