Quotes About Cinema

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.

I've played the villain before, but my baddies have always entertained.

One woman who I think is great is Vidya Balan: her casting in 'The Dirty Picture' was very exciting. Let's break new grounds; let's think beyond the usual. Why can't a woman who plays a mother also play a lover, or why a lover can't play a villain?

I would have loved to do a film like 'Piku' or 'Neerja.' But I never got a role where a woman played an authoritative role. In my time, the hero and the villain were both men. The heroine was only the victim.

Yes, I play a cop in Amit Kumar's 'Monsoon Shootout' where Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays the villain.

I would like to become 'Dilavar' from 'Muqaadar Ka Sikander' played by Amjad Khan. That is the kind of negativity a villain should have.

I am no more solely counted for comic or villain roles, which comes more often in mainstream, masala films.

I will play a villain only if the role is a powerful one.

It is an irony that the era of crafty villains such as Gabbar Singh or Mogambo has gone away.

I hope that every film I make has something to offer in the area of making people feel either vindicated or different in terms of who they are.

I have a soft spot for vintage movie houses covered in goo; what can I say?

If you have a year where a few good horror films come out, all of the sudden, horror is back and everyone's talking about how it's a vintage year for horror.

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

I'm not keen on films which depict a lot of violence.

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.

Once you do something violent in a film, you don't have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I'm saying?

I like doing violent movies.

'The Fugitive Kind,' 'Rope,' 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' - I watched all these as a way of reminding myself that you can do a movie based on a play. You can do a movie that stays in one place for a long stretch.