Quotes About Cinema

You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.

You can sometimes break rules in comics that you can't necessarily break in cinema. It's fun to find something cool in a comic and then try and find a way to break the same rule in another medium.

'Get Out' definitely brought it to the mainstream, but you can look back at the original 'Night of the Living Dead' and that's definitely a commentary on racism.

Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.

We're going to see a very, very commercial kind of picture-making.

It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is acting. I don't believe it. I feel whenever you are doing a film, you are acting. So you need to be applauded for that. I won't do art house cinemas. I want to make commercial films. I want my films to make money.

So far, yes, I have been doing only commercial films because those are the kind of films that came my way. Those are the kind of films that I liked, but definitely I'm open to doing other kinds of cinema as well, and if something comes along - if I like a character - then I would definitely do something off-beat or edgy.

People think the effort is less in popular commercial cinema, but that's not true.

Bottom line is, off-beat film or commercial films, Tollywood or Bollywood, it's the role that matters to me.

You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.

I would even commit seven years to a film for Rajamouli.

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

There has to be a continuation of the communal experience of filmgoing.

If you think back to the great French directors it's difficult to think of British film-makers who are comparable.

A movie moment in a theatre would never be comparable to the same movie moment elsewhere no matter how cheap the big TV becomes.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

There will always be a place for social movie-going. Nothing can compete with that.

Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

Indian cinema has completed 100 years. How many new stories can you bring every time? It's not possible.

I have composed music for many city-based movies.

In Sandalwood, each hero has a style and songs are composed accordingly.

I think of myself as a film composer.

I don't want to do films for money and go back. I want to try to at least change the world through cinema, the industry, the way cinema is conceived.