Quotes About Cinema

We need women in cinema to know first that they have a safe space to open up about their struggles without being judged and marginalised.

I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw.

I challenge the idea that films about rich people are escapism and films about working class people are dour and sad. I find the opposite's the case.

I go to see films at the multiplex because they are not good films, and so I don't have to think about things like death, social oppression, or yes, my fertility, while I watch them.

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

My son Ishaan's passion for movies and his exposure to world cinema infuses me with optimism.

I think it's important for anyone who takes cinema seriously not to limit yourself to just optimistic or happy movies. I think that's a problem. You've got to be willing to let the art of cinema take you into some darker places if you're going to make full use of it.

My films are very everyday, and people don't always want to go to the cinema to see ordinary lives. They want to see something a bit more extraordinary. I get that desire, but it's not the kind of film I want to make.

I just love sitting in a theater watching a film and the grain is like boiling and it feels completely alive like an organism almost; like an organism made out of light.

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

The original 'Tum Bin' was one of my favourite films whether you talk about the film or the music.

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep.

You never make movies for Oscars.

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

I watch the Cannes awards ceremony because I relate more to the films that are competing in Cannes than the ones competing for the Oscars.

The single most eye-opening experience for me and what propelled me to become a filmmaker was that I started to see films from other countries.

I ended up being exposed to cinema that a lot of other kids wouldn't have been exposed to.

Films have to find a way to compress many anecdotes into one, or many events into one. Otherwise there is no way to tell it in two and a half hours.

And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.

I really ought to try and make a film that's a bit more cynical. But I don't think I'd know how to do it. I think what it is, is that if you're a film director, you're basically there because you enjoy manipulating people's emotions.