Quotes About Cinema

I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones.

Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.

Even within escapist cinema, if you find a good story to tell, it will do well.

All I have tried to do as an actor is push good story telling.

Cinema is a director's medium; it's his story and his vision. If it's a good story, people will connect to it.

I did 'Padman' not only because of its social message. I did it because it was a good story.

These days, you don't need a song or glamour to make your film work. It is all about a good story.

A good film is always a good film and a good story is always a good story.

I like to be part of films that have a good story, good characters.

Film is a real good way to get deep with someone.

I definitely am open to South Indian films. There is a lot of good work coming from these states and I would like to be a part in some of them.

I want to do good work in cinemas and on OTT.

When I first saw 'House on Haunted Hill' as a kid in Baltimore, and the skeleton went out on the wire, and the thousand kids in the audience went crazy... My whole life, I've tried to at least equal that cinema anarchy. I came close with the end of 'Pink Flamingos,' but I didn't tie with it.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

'Grease' is an awesome movie. I wish they'd make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it.

I am a great fan of Rituparno's films and have always nurtured a wish of acting in his films. I was very impressed with his 'Chokher Bali,' 'Bariwali,' and 'Raincoat.'

Earlier Bollywood was a fly-by kind of business which few wished to be involved in. Now Bollywood is good business and everybody wants to be associated with films. This is definitely a very significant change that I have seen in Bollywood.

'The Blair Witch Project' is a great movie.

Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema.

When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.

I was raised by my aunt and we bonded over the eight-o-clock movie on TV. We'd watch everything from James Cagney in 'White Heat' to Lon Chaney in 'The Wolf Man' and every Bogart movie.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.