Quotes About Cinema

I loved going to the movies, especially when I was a teenager in the seventies. How couldn't you in what was perhaps the greatest era of auteur cinema?

For me, cinema is very important. I grew up with television; then, as a teenager, you discover cinema.

I was a child in the '60s and a teenager in the '70s, which was the golden age of film as far as I'm concerned, between American film and the Italian reinvention of genre film.

Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.

We are living in an age where teenagers are not going to the movies.

It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

I think there used to be more respect toward young people in movies. John Hughes really respects his characters and they're given their emotional weight. He does so even with kids, but especially with teenagers.

Sometime in your teens you have to decide what you want to do. I knew it had to be cinema.

I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad student. I just devoured film, but there was a point in my teens when I started to run a little film society.

In my teens, I fell in love with the movies.

I find that the stuff on television is more exciting than the films, which are for teens almost.

I'm telling the same story in every film.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

I have something inside of me that every day tells me that nature and beauty is the soul, the meaning, of our life. And I also love Hollywood and cinema.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

Having done movies in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi, I have been accepted both in North and down South. I don't believe in divisions. I like to believe that I am working in the Indian film industry.

Everybody in the two Telugu states, especially the residents of Vijayawada, love both cinema and politics. And 'NOTA' is a cinema with a political subject.

It was never a conscious decision to stay away from Telugu cinema.

I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.

Of course, I will continue acting. I just need to dispel the Telugu and Tamil cinema's insecurities about married actresses. I don't know about others. But I am not going anywhere after marriage.

As long as I am acting, I will do only Telugu films. I want to take Telugu films to the world. Everyone should talk about our films.