Quotes About Cinema

I like good movies. Not to say that there aren't wonderful sci-fi films out there, but it's not where I go first. It's not where I go first in the rental aisle, I should say.

There's a lot of scope for performing in masala movies.

I've not used a score in any of my films so far.

The score, which comes often quite later in a film, can help reinvigorate your emotional engagement with it.

I think 'Easy Rider' might have been the first time that someone made a film using found music instead of an orchestral score. No one had really used found music in a movie before, except to play on radios or when someone was singing in a scene.

When I was a kid, there was no DVD, no VHS. The only way to re-live a movie once it was out of the theater was to listen to its film score.

I grew up on film scores and scores from films.

I love watching audiences scream.

I do a lot of screen re-writing.

Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

I want to do Indian films based on scripts with a universal appeal.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Films work due to scripts, characters, and what you see on screen.

I will do a film if there is a good scope for acting. I am looking for good scripts.

I am doing films that are content-oriented and where I have the scope to perform. Rarely do such scripts happen.

I choose films based on scripts.

Bengal is a very important seat of cinema for me. I can't even think of giving it all up.

Hindi commercial cinema has denigrated women. We owe a debt of ingratitude to Bollywood for having insidiously polluted our culture covertly.

'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.

Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world.

There is so much bloodshed and action packed into our films these days. Pretty women provide the much-needed respite to the masses from the melee of non-stop action.

In terms of film festivals, Cannes is the greatest launch pad.