Quotes About Cinema

Many for whom the stage has been the launch pad to cinema have forgotten their roots. I don't intend to, ever.

Lots of movies don't kind of work as well as they do on the page.

In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.

Film can be more of a reality than a page with words can ever be.

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

I love film - it's like painting.

You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.

When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.

There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.

India Pakistan' will be on the lines of 'Oru Kal Oru Kannadi' and 'Kalakalappu.'

If I have to choose between a Bollywood film and Pakistan film, it may sound cliched, but I will go with the script first. And if both the scripts are equally good, then I will choose a Pakistan film.

I loved my roles in 'Veer-Zaara,' 'Train To Pakistan' and 'Shaheed-e-Mohabbat.'

Hindi films are watched with keen interest in Pakistan, as Pakistani plays are watched in India. Pakistani actors also work in the Indian entertainment industry.

I've given 'Bin Roye' everything, and I'm hoping that people enjoy something different coming from Pakistani cinema.

I'm the first Indian actress to shoot for a Pakistani film in Pakistan.

I'd love to make a film like 'Pan's Labyrinth.'

I would like to be part of sensible cinema, irrespective of whether it is a commercial or niche film, but it doesn't always pan out like that.

Italian design is a global excellence, on a par with food, culture, cinema, and, more generally, lifestyle.

I came from Hyderabad and didn't know the difference between commercial and parallel cinema.

I knew that I wanted to be in parallel cinema and do meaningful films.

In the 80s, parallel cinema gained momentum. So, I got back to films and won National awards for Maqbool' and other films.

Personally, I might be all for parallel or experimental cinema, but when I'm making a film, I don't mind adding a commercial tadka.

If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.

I don't know Hollywood very well. I've never lived in Los Angeles or New York. But what I can see in Paris, where I live, is that actresses like Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Charlotte Rampling, still get the chance to play strong, sexy roles even though they're not 20.