Quotes About Cinema

When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein's.

Frankly, I love 'Scream': I think it's one of the great scary/funny movies.

Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.

I'm a freak for great movies. I love movies.

I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.

Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.

I think we just need to have a demand for fresh and nuanced movies.

I hope to bring fresh ideas to the big screen.

Clearly, the works of John Carpenter and Sam Raimi are front and center here. Argento is definitely there. But even stuff like the 'Friday the 13th' movies had quite an influence on me growing up.

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

I would personally not run down any cinema just because I am not capable of making it. Anurag Kashyap makes a certain kind of cinema; I make a different kind. But when we meet, we are friendly.

I started buying films a couple of years ago. The first film-maker I began to obsessively collect was Andy Milligan. He was a New York frustrated artist.

Working in independent cinema is far more frustrating than mainstream because it is difficult to get money to make such films.

I can't point my finger on a 'dream role,' but the days that I'm able to fulfill the stories of the 'hood/barrio on film, those will be great days.

Being an actor, it is very difficult... I applaud those that can... but it is very difficult to do cinema as well as fulfill family responsibilities.

I always felt restrained by lower-budget films. I enjoyed making them, and I felt fulfilled, but I really did always want to make bigger movies.

Meaningful cinema which lets me explore my talent to the fullest and with different roles is more important to me than just doing more and more films.

Dead End' will see one of the most successful complex cross country funding and I'm sure it will firm up India's position in the global cinema market.

Sight does not master the pictures, it is the pictures which master one's sight. They flood one's consciousness. The cinema involves putting the eye into uniform, where before it was naked.

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.