Quotes About Cinema

Every politician goes through a lean patch during which they go back to their main area of expertise. Some return to business, some practice law, and I... have come back to cinema.

There's nothing wrong in sporting a bikini. If the director wants to shoot you in a pool, you cannot be wearing denims or a saree - you need to be dressed accordingly to the situation.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.

Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.

I had grown up thinking of movies as something to eat popcorn with. Bergman and the other European directors were the first ones to open my eyes to film as art.

I love big popcorn movies.

For me, watching a movie is an experience where I can go, eat popcorn, and enjoy with my friends and family. I want to be a part of cinema that entertains people.

I like butter with my popcorn.

If we go out we'll go to the cinema which is a great excuse for me to eat popcorn.

I love people who go out and say, 'If cinema is God, then I'm the pope.' As an actor working with these kinds of people, the older you get, the more you appreciate it.

Hong Kong movies were really popular in my generation.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.

I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.

Such was his popularity that a film would sell only in his name. People would watch a particular film because it had Mehar Mittal in the cast.

My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.

Media is the first important portion of any cinema industry.

That's why I like my job so much, cinema is a nation. I see on Twitter, there's people are calling themselves Portrait Nation. That's beautiful. To me, it's about campaigning for cinema, that's my commitment.

As an actor, I am extremely fortunate to portray Milkha Singh on the big screen.

I think an actor should portray all kinds of emotions in films.

Like any other actor, I also look for good scripts and want to portray some memorable characters on screen.