Quotes About Cinema

I'm a child of that, the 'Bonnie and Clyde' to 'Raging Bull' period, you know. Those are the films that heightened my interest in acting and movies and everything.

I watched a little 'Beyond the Black Rainbow.'

It's so hard to raise money for independent films and the fact of the matter is that the bigger my star or whatever is, as a result of doing bigger pictures, the easier it is for me to get money for my own projects.

It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.

When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.

If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.

Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.

A director like Ram Gopal Varma brings out a different dimension in your performance.

I feel glamour has a legit place on the ramp and in the fashion world. In films, glamour has to service the story.

'Karyam Nissaram' and 'Oru Painkili Katha' ran for 100 days, 'Ammayana Sathyam' for 97 days and other hits were 'Kelkatha Sabdam,' 'Arante Mulla Kochu Mulla' and 'Aniyatha Valakal.'

The funny thing about cinema is, usually when they do a story that has African Americans in it, there always has to be a white guy who's the savior.

I love to play with the gadgets that come with film.

Filmmaking is a gamble.

I like gangster movies, personally.

I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

I love a couple of Fulci things. I just had a gas watching them. It's not what I would do, but I loved watching them. They were fun.

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

I do consider myself a film geek. I love television and film.

I am a movie geek, yes!

I love film, any kind of genre.

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

The only genre of movie that I could see making that doesn't have anything magical or otherworldly about it would be a war film. I'm very interested in history, and a war film could be something that would lure me in.

I would like to do movies of all genres.

I will do all genres. I will do intense roles, along with the kind of films that I have grown up watching, like 'Biwi No. 1' and 'Judwaa.' But I won't do films where, if you take me out of the script, nothing changes.