Quotes About Cinema

By and large, I think female directors are far more sensitive.

India-Pakistan war and romance have always been sensitive issues for film-makers in both the countries.

Raaz' was one of the biggest grosser ever, and I'd have loved to be a part of the sequel. The original brings back lots of memories.

I don't think I can make a film without Salman. He is in 'Mr. India 2' and also in the sequels to 'No Entry' and 'Wanted.' I'm his new Sooraj Barjatya.

I've met Shah Rukh a couple of times. He had even dropped by on the sets of 'Agent Vinod'.

I grew up in the seventies, and films for us were larger-than-life, masala entertainers.

I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.

People over 30 are interested in sex too, but they get real movies about it.

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

For me, 'Shanghai' is beyond language. For me, it's good cinema. The language is incidental.

Music is such an incredibly affecting part of any movie-going experience, and it just... it shapes your whole experience.

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.

How content-driven cinema worked so well... Yeah, the shift is definitely happening... It is such a good change, and it is the kind of change I would like to see so that we just go to watch a film and not put them into brackets - that this is an art film or commercial movie.

Fast cutting, loud music, blood spewing everywhere, and gunshots permeating the scenes does not necessarily make for a shocking movie.

I love film, and I love short films.

I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story.

I have a shot a lot of movies in Dubai.

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.

I wanted to be a movie director. I was just obsessed with watching movies and camera shots and directors. I read autobiographies and stuff of directors.

You can be sure that they'll be showing 'Ben-Hur' somewhere for a long, long time to come.

I've always had a problem showing fear on a film.

Well, I think by and large, certainly in terms of cinema, American culture dominates our cinema, mainly in the films that are shown in the multiplexes but also in the way that it has a magnetic effect on British films.