Quotes About Cinema

I would like to make a film in the four South Indian languages.

I wanted to do films in different languages.

I have done films in nine languages and am known in as many states.

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.

American films look at films with a larger than life attitude while the French films look at life as it is.

I grew up watching Cinemax, the late-night Cinemax of the '80s and early '90s.

TV's job is to make you lean in, and a film's job is to make you lean back.

Of course I want to do films that I feel I like and I feel like are either entertaining or different sort of value attached to it which I personally lean towards, and that's how I make my choices.

If I lean towards one particular party, people would not enjoy my comedy. Also, to enter politics, I should first leave cinema completely.

Working with directors like Gurinder Chadha was a learning experience for me.

All that I have learnt about cinema is from my father but all that we have learnt about life is from my mother.

Cinema has a greater impact as it leaves a long lasting memory. Television, on the other hand, is also good but requires a lot of time.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

Years down the line, when people look at my filmography, I'd like them to see a legacy of new-age content films.

I don't think life gets any better than sitting in the sun while a legend of French cinema tells you stories about making 'Belle de Jour' and other wonderful films, and eating great food.

I got a chance to work with so many stalwarts from British cinema. Judi Dench, of course, who is a legend. Then there was my director Stephen Frears. He is the man who made some of British cinema's salient trendsetters.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

'Masaan' was a life-changing experience.

Light-hearted films are not content-driven films.

I have not only played light-hearted roles, but many times, I end up playing this annoying girl in films.

I don't categorise cinema at all. If I am doing this, that means I am limiting myself.

Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

I believe in films that have logic behind every emotion or action.

When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT.