Quotes About Cinema

Movies are just ridiculously expensive.

Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

Film is a very expensive medium.

'Housefull' is just a 40-45 crores film. It was never an expensive film to begin with.

I would like to be part of all kind of cinema and will jump at any opportunity that allows me to experiment as an actor.

I want to make good, fun films, not necessarily experimental ones.

I don't think 'Road' is an experimental film.

I always loved experimenting in film.

Thanks to multiplexes there are lots of experiments going on and we have some great directors like Sujoy, Shoojit, Dibakar.

I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire.

There is a big market for horror in India, but people don't explore that much.

There's so many places, personally, that I would love as a film fan to explore.

Experimental film by the '70s had become much more mainstream after 'Bonnie and Clyde' and stuff in the late '60s, when you were seeing bigger movies where people were exploring the medium a lot more.

People make a star out of actors after one or two films and keep capitalising on the same thing without having the courage of exploring the world of cinema, which has so much to offer.

I am extremely eclectic in choosing my films as an audience, and as a direct result of that, I love exploring, I love cinema, and I love learning from different experiences.

For me, there's cinema, which I love and would fight for, and then there's also entertainment, and I see them as very, very different. But sure, I'd love to do a blockbuster. I can't wait for someone to tell me, 'Explosion, run!'

I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.

When I was really young, I was obsessed with Bollywood. Then I got exposed to world cinema, and I wanted to be a part of it. Then I was exposed to theatre, and I only wanted to do theatre.

I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.

When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film.

I think 'E.T.' is a quite extraordinary piece of cinema.

Nicolas Winding Refn

You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.

I can't see any reason why a dramatic story can't be in 3-D. I think 'Lawrence of Arabia' would have been fabulous in 3-D.