Quotes About Cinema

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

Every film starts with two or three images. Then I try to edit these images.

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

I fell asleep during 'The Dark Knight Rises.' I fell asleep during 'The Hunger Games,' all of them. I cannot stay awake. As soon as a movie starts, I'm asleep!

Vijay Anand's death marks the passing away of a true, original mind. Vijay had charisma and cinematic dazzle. He was the first who gave Indian film directors the status of a star.

I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?

If you want to be in Hollywood, and if you want to make big international movies, you have to be able to make movies that don't have anything to do with social status or politics. To limit yourself to just do these little small movies and call it black cinema itself is a mistake to me.

I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.

The lack of 'quality' films in Pakistan was one of the reasons why I stayed away.

I think our cinema has stayed in its adolescent stage largely because of our obsession with and our dependence upon stars to make our movies. The stars, being only too human, realise that this is the case, and so they milk it for whatever it's worth, and who can blame them?

The Tamilians love me because I have done the most number of movies in Kollywood and have worked with all the top stars. I have even stayed in Chennai for a few years, and I have a strong connect with the city and the State of Tamil Nadu.

Staying home and watching French movies is what I normally like to do.

I steal from every movie ever made.

If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

I've been stealing from the Alien films throughout my entire career.

At 17, I went to an engineering college, the entire reading was about fluid mechanics and steam engines and what not, so I drifted from arts, literature and even cinema, because in Aligarh there were a limited number of theatres.

The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.

Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.

I stepped in for Nicole Kidman in 'Dogville' when she left that film.

I am basically a theatre artiste. However, after stepping into cinema, I did not get much opportunity to act in plays.

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.