Quotes About Cinema

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

I'm always interested in relationships between women. I'm always interested in how women relate to each other, whether it's a family relationship or it's a friend relationship. That's such uncharted territory in cinema.

When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'

I prefer the Telugu film industry, as women are respected more than they are in the Tamil film industry. In Tamil cinema, they care only about their hero, who is God.

There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema, are exploring some really bold themes.

In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but not in cinema.

I respect Malayalam films the same way I respect Bengali films. I think Malayalam films have not compromised on the essence and have kept their own statement and are coming up with very good themes.

Films with fresh themes and able directors are a pleasure to associate yourself with.

I think as the largest democracy in the world, we have self-conscious filmmakers who can handle sensitive themes.

I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.

Corporate America limits the world to consumerism. Science can limit it to the material world. Even religion limits it to a lot of theories that can explain everything. I think we need cinema to break that apart and remind us that we're not in control, and we don't understand as much as we think do.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

I'm very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be, five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie, and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD; that's it - simple.

If you represent a fantasy for the people who actually go to the cinema, they grab that and go with it; therefore, for the rest of their lives, they actually identify you with a certain thinking - a certain philosophy. There are many actors who want to pursue that same thought in real life as well, and that's perfectly acceptable.

Jayalalithaa was brutalised from the age of 16 in the cinema world. She therefore bears a psychotic pleasure in humiliating people as she was humiliated. She was deadened to normal human emotions.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

Vittorio De Sica's 'Bicycle Thieves' changed my very idea of cinema.

My favorite movie ever is 'Bicycle Thieves.'

Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited. Like, if you think you're going to make a difference or change anything, you're on pretty dangerous thin ice.