Quotes About Cinema

It's a very difficult thing to adapt a piece of existing material into film.

By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.

'Damadol' is a dig at commercial cinema where I play the role of the blunt-headed producer who loves masala flicks and feels he knows everything about films.

I like digital films.

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

If I made a film today, it would certainly be on digital.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

When you make shorts, people don't get paid. It's mostly about being diplomatic that you're going to do a masterpiece of short cinema.

I like to direct for the big screen.

It is my passion to direct movies.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

I will watch any film directed by Imtiaz Ali.

You find a movie you love and you figure out who directed it, then you go to the video store and go through all the John Carpenter stuff and all the Sam Raimi stuff.

I have directed Amitabh in four films - 'Kaalia,' 'Shahenshah,' 'Main Azad Hoon' and 'Major Saab' - and we have always been hand-in-glove.

I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.

I'm interested in films, in directing.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.

When I'm directing a film, I can't do any more than appear in a song.

Given a choice, I prefer directing a play to a film.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

I'm a woman director and my movies are shown all around the world.

You have to have a great director to make a great movie.

I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.