Quotes About Cinema

I was never interested in the quantity of films or the glamorous side of cinema.

Gong Li is like the queen of movies.

A film like 'Kai Po Che!', 'Queen', 'Behen Hogi Teri' and 'Bareilly Ki Barfi' are not really independent films.

In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made 'Queen Margot.'

I have played queens on screen in the past.

My films might have been queer - because I was - but they were not gay.

Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

By the time I finished 'Poison,' the New Queer Cinema was branded, and I was associated with this. In many ways, it formed me as a filmmaker, like as a feature filmmaker I never set out to be.

With Quentin Tarantino, he makes movies imagining himself as the audience. To be specific and true to what he wants resonates to people who like his movies.

In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of.

The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.

Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son.

I'm a big Quentin Tarantino fan.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.

Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick.

It's nice to have a quiet movie to give you time to meditate on an idea. A lot of movies don't give you the space to feel anything.

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

'Aiyyaa' is a very quirky film.

I love Wes Anderson films, which are quirky and funny.

I'm not a massive fan of 3D. I've seen some good 3D, and I've seen quite a lot of bad 3D. I think if a film is created for the shock effect of 3D, then it's a certain type of film that I'm not massively bothered about.

I have to watch quite a lot of films for work and I really enjoy going to the cinema and watching someone's creative work.

I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.

I'd love to do a film on homosexuality. That's on my radar.