Quotes About Cinema

I would love for musicals to come back on the screen.

Lots of musicians from non-filmi backgrounds and from independent bands are making it to mainstream cinema. Even the music directors are experimenting with different genres.

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

I have only seen movies of my generation - 'Mother India,' 'Shree 420,' 'Awaara.' Those days, we had actors such as Dilip Kumar, Ashok Kumar.

When people ask me to describe my journey in Hindi cinema post-'Barfi!' I actually don't know what to say.

The idea of directing my own movie is definitely more challenging than choreography.

I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

I do films for the common man and identify myself one among them.

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.

I love 'Airplane,' the 'Naked Gun' films; everything the Zucker brothers have done is just awesome.

I love 'Airplane,' and I love 'Naked Gun' and all those films, where you're parodying.

Snoop Scorsese, that's my director name.

You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.

In the 1960s, songs were an integral part of film narration. I have been fortunate to have had some of the best songs of the era picturised on me, some of which gave me an opportunity to use my skills as a dancer too.

Dibakar and Shekhar have the vision that we would associate with European cinema. They leave their actors on their own to give a personal narration on the screen.

With American blockbuster cinema, everything is very fast, there's a lot of action and narration.

I came from the school of cinema verite documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.

It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It does not exist at all in nature; it is a construct made by us, and I wonder whether we need the narrative anymore.

I don't think I ever watched a movie without being totally immersed in the story. But at the same time, I had to keep some distance from it. I had to question what the narrative was trying to tell me or was injecting in my brain.

I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.

I filmed my first narrative feature in 2006, a story set in Rwanda called 'Munyurangabo.'

I'd love to be a filmmaker and look back and be like, 'Ah, man, we were part of that whole '80s video nasty thing!'

Je récapitule. Entrez dans une salle de ciné : si pour aller de A à B, les protagonistes mettent plus de temps que vous ne le souhaiteriez, alors c'est un film porno.