Quotes About Cinema

I think, for an actor, the whole world is a place of work because if you focus on characters and on stories, they are everywhere, so yeah, I feel very privileged to have had this great opportunities in the international cinema and especially in the American cinema.

Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books.

When you look back over 100 years when stop-motion was really at the dawn of cinema, a lot of the ways it developed was you had stage magicians who were looking to bring their illusions to life, and one of the ways they did that, at the time, was through cinema and stop-motion. They developed these processes.

Ask anyone, and they'll tell you that most of the good horror films made in the U.S. are indie films. You might get 'The Ring' or 'The Others,' but most are independently produced.

There is nothing wrong with commercial cinema if it is made well. In fact, if you ask me, the Hindi film industry has also produced some truly outstanding works over the years.

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

The first war movie I ever saw was 'Platoon,' and I was eight months pregnant. So my husband, producer Charles Roven, wasn't sure I'd make it.

In America, I don't think you have the creative freedom that I'm used to. Traditionally, it's a producer's cinema here.

My connection with South films began with a Kannada film and with producer Ramu, in particular.

As a producer, I wanted to make medium-budget films, and I did.

Hollywood's best producers and directors are in film, not TV.

In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

Be it acting, writing, directing or producing, I love cinema. I love the art of telling stories and I'm happy doing one of the above or all of the above.

I am the last person who has any judgement about any kind of cinema, least of all commercial cinema because I am a product of commercial cinema.

The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

My production company wasn't doing well, so we were not producing films. Over a period of time, we have realized that we are going to produce our own films and make cinema that we like. We've got so much in-house talent, and my kids are going to be coming, so we all decided that we are going to be in films and cinema.

Acting began as a casual thing, but along the way, I did films like 'Happy Days,' '100% Love,' and 'Baahubali' that made me fall in love with cinema. I can't imagine being in any other profession.

I never expected my sons to make a career out of cinema. If they are honest and dedicated in their profession, no doubt success would follow them.

Performing in front of the camera is a different thing, and shooting a whole film is another.

Films take us into an entirely different world, and that's why we must ensure that our long shots do justice.

I can't differentiate between mass and class films.