Quotes About Cinema

I'm eagerly looking forward to substantial roles from Kollywood filmmakers.

Small films, made on shoe-string budget work in big centres, and for that a substantial amount of budget should be set aside for marketing.

I watch Denzel Washington films with subtitles.

I'd love to find a lifelong female film editor as Scorsese has with Thelma Schoonmaker. I think women are probably, without generalising, sensitive to subtle things as an editor.

I like films that just put you in someone's world. It can be very subversive. Hitchcock would put you in the mind of a psychopath, and you'd care about them.

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

One of my favourites is American Beauty. Spacey is so good in that.

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

The movie business is a big gamble.

My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.

The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.

There are no old movies really - only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

In an enigmatic tone Kevin said, 'What about going to the movies tomorrow night?

I love the French. They're the biggest film buffs and protectors of cinema in the world. They really look out for the filmmaker and the rights of the filmmaker, and they believe in final cut.

Someone might say, I don't understand music; but most people experience music emotionally and would agree that music is an abstraction. You don't need to put music into words right away--you just listen. Cinema is a lot like music. It can be very abstract, but people have a yearning to make intellectual sense of it, to put it right into words.

Thanks to 'Eega,' people respect me as actor. That abundance of respect is what pulls me towards cinema.