Quotes About Cinema

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

Film is forever.

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

I want to make more films in the heartland, the forgotten America.

I grew up on the commercial film format. I have grown up all my life watching films and they have all been mainstream commercial cinema.

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

Experimental or independent cinema is so exciting because it is about risk-taking, as there is no formula.

We used Chaplin's formula in all my pictures. Make 'em laugh for five and a half reels, and then make 'em cry in the last half reel. But give 'em a chance to dry their eyes before the lights come up.

It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.

I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one has brought a certain name and contribution to cinema.

Every frame of every film is from a particular time. So, if you make a film in 2017, the times can't not have a bearing.

After the liberation of France, I went to the movies all ihe time.

I'm very happy in France making movies.

I really like action movies. The 'Die Hard' franchise. And the 'Bourne' movies.

We are definitely doing 'Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety 2,' it's a great franchise to take forward.

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

I love all sorts of movies, whether made by Scorsese or Frank Capra. I love them all.

Let me be very frank. I make films keeping within the mainstream and my cinema is popular cinema. I love it this way.