Quotes About Cinema

If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.

You can't stop people watching on mobiles, but I hope the old fashioned idea of sitting in a dark room with a big screen with a group of strangers lives on forever.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I ' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.

It didn't even occur to me that I could use my strong image in cinema to propagate my political ideas. To me, cinema was cinema and politics was politics.

It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first 'Ocean's Eleven,' the 1960 Lewis Milestone film.

I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

The cinema should offer new images, create new memories.

I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it.

'Khoobsurat' was an eye-opener in many ways. Cinema is a colossal money-churning business in India, and working in that environment offered me quite an incredible learning experience.

I want to work with Sriram Raghavan, Imtiaz Ali, Karan Johar, and, of course, any other director who is offering a great role to play in a film.

Because of what I did in Punjabi cinema, I have got offers in Bollywood.

When I go to a cinema, I don't care if the film is made by a man or a woman as long as it tells me a story, as long as it offers pictures that shed light on my existence, characters I can identify with, jokes I can laugh at.

I do not get that many offers in commercial cinema, to be very honest.

If the offers are good, I am open to do movies in any language.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it's men.

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

'Hum Dono' was accepted in a very big way. It was the official entry at the 1962 Berlin Film Festival.

Oftentimes, reality is much worse than what you can put in a movie.

Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.

There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'