Quotes About Cinema

Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'

I find the working pattern to be the same in Bollywood as well as Tollywood. Especially because most directors of photography from the Telugu industry operate in Bollywood, too.

I am an actress. My first film was a Telugu film, my second film was Bollywood, and third was Indo-Chinese.

I played a biker in one of my earliest films in Telugu, 'Mr Perfect.'

Nobody has tried anything like this in Telugu cinema. 'Eega' is a landmark film.

The pacing in Tamil and Telugu is very different from Malayalam cinema.

I've done a host of Tamil and Telugu films, a Bengali one, too.

It's been a long and wonderful journey for me but feels like it was just the other day when I started my career in films. I am very grateful to this wonderful Telugu cinema industry and the audience for all the love and unflinching support without which it would not have been possible.

I have been inspired by world cinema in different ways. But no, 'Raja The Great' is not a copy. It's not based on any film. You will see a lot of Telugu nativity, moreover.

My mom was the happiest person when I first got a Telugu offer. She told me that the people here love cinema and will also love you. I have to agree with her.

I've acted in Hindi, English, Tamil and Telugu films.

It's time for Telugu cinema to make its presence felt.

I have done Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi movies, and each actor that I've worked with is different from the other.

I am ready to act in Telugu if I get a good story.

I have done films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada. I don't find any difference.

Telugu heroes are made into demi-gods. The fans here are sincere, and even if the film is bad, they will see it and stand by the actors they like.

Bollywood is a different ballgame. I am quite used to Tamil and Telugu films.

For some reason, I shied away from watching Telugu films but now I am hooked to them.

I got a sneak peek into the functioning of the film industries of the south through Telugu cinema. This industry has helped me understand how to adapt to various styles of filmmaking. It's been liberating.

In fact, my earliest films were in Tamil and Telugu and since then I have been acting in all languages.

I love doing Telugu films.

The Telugu industry and their scripts are extremely nice.

I am aware of Telugu cinema and I have never felt that it's a different one.

If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck and the Marx Brothers, think again. The biggest star - No. 1 in the 1936, '37 and '38 exhibitor polls - was a three-time box-office champ before she was 10. Shirley Temple, singer, dancer, and prime exemplar of Movie Cute, owned the '30s.