Quotes About Cinema

Well, we're a Hindi speaking Marwari family, but everybody in my family understands Telugu and talk Telugu films all the time.

I always was a great fan of Malayalam cinema, Sathyan in particular. I loved their understated acting.

I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.

Just because I worked in fashion doesn't mean I didn't go to see 'Underworld' three times!

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

A film in Bollywood was truly unexpected.

Picnic at Hanging Rock' is the exemplary study of disapparition in cinema - I know of no other major film which deals with unexplained disappearance.

Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.

I have seen 'Sanju,' and it is a well-made commercial film. However, it was left unexplored. I would have directed it with a different approach.

We seek festivals for two reasons - either to create buzz because it is a small film or to find unexplored markets outside India.

It's interesting to see these lives from places I may never go unfold on screen.

Cinema felt like a fantasy. It was like watching dreams unfold on the screen before me.

For my brother and me, there would be no 'Field of Dreams'-like playing catch, no nature lessons with our old man. Instead, it would be a darkened theater, the projector light coming on, and a new adventure unfolding.

This is not that time of a cinema where you get 10 to 15 chances. You only get two to three chances, and if you do something nice in that, then it is great. Otherwise, people are very unforgiving.

Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.

When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

My choices in films are spontaneous.

Most of the cricketers are doing side businesses apart from playing the sport, so why should I be left behind. I feel there is a lot of money in making films, and since Punjabi cinema is doing good, this is a lucrative option for me.

There's a soft spot in my heart for the color and fantasy of the '80s.

People look to cinema to spread the word and to tell these wonderful, outrageous stories or true-to-life documentaries.

Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

I'd seen Jose Padilha's 'Elite Squad 1' and '2', and I'd seen his documentary, 'Bus 174'.

I lived within walking distance of Harvard Square, and that's where I discovered my love of cinema. I saw a lot of foreign and independent films there.