Quotes About Cinema

I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.

It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.

My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.'

Most times, at the movies, my stress levels are ratcheted up so high that I can barely sit through the full production without excusing myself, clutching people next to me or crawling out of my seat, incapacitated by the unknown.

The beauty of life are women, no one loves them as much as me. I adore them all, the ugly, the beautiful, the cold, the sexy and especially those that are from cinema material, shadow and light.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

Bridesmaids proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].

I like films where there's a relationship between two women. I always think that's lovely to watch on the screen.

I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.

French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.

Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.

I do not want these women-centric films, or... what's that term? ...mahila-pradhan films as everyone calls them.

A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.

Women at my age they are making love, they are feeling sensual, they flirt, they have boyfriends, they have a sexual life. They are just not being represented in the movies.

Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.

It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.

The musicals that I loved, growing up - many, many. 'Singing in the Rain,' of course, is a classic, I love 'Meet Me in St. Louis.' I love 'Funny Face,' Stanley Donen's beautiful movie. It's really countless for me.

I used to hold Stanley Kubrick film festivals at my house in high school. These are not cool things.