Quotes About Cinema

I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.

I want to do stories that really move me, that have an audience, and at the end of the day, I want people to feel something when they walk out of the cinema.

I love being part of cinema and I don't see myself doing anything else.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

A lot of cinema is about the game of authenticity - do you feel it's real?

I came to cinema for money. I had to settle a loan of Rs 10 lakh. I had no other go, so I thought I'd try my luck in films. I was earning Rs 25,000 at that time. It was not even enough for my family.

From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman.

If I am doing a certain kind of cinema, that does not mean I hate the other kind.

I would like to balance my career, do meaningful cinema and also do fluff films.

I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.

I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.

I don't go to the cinema much.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

Tommy Lee Jones

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.

I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?'

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?

I've always acted; in fact, I can't remember a time when I was not. When I was little, cinema was a game, then my father's job and now mine.

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.