Cinema Quotes
On watching, making, and loving film.
These lines move between influence and enjoyment - a filmmaker tracing his generation's debt to an earlier movement, and someone who just wants to tune out with a freaky horror film. See also Art.
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.
I never expected my sons to make a career out of cinema. If they are honest and dedicated in their profession, no doubt success would follow them.
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I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.
Karzzz is my way' of paying homage to the mesmerising cinema of '80s, to Subhash Ghai's revered cult film 'Karz.'
Dead End' will see one of the most successful complex cross country funding and I'm sure it will firm up India's position in the global cinema market.
I have always believed that cinema has no language and 'Dead End' has proved it so.
Compare with a country like China, India has very few cinema screens, as we have real estate problems.
I don't start a film with the heroine but with the cinema subject. If there is a woman in the story, she has to be of a particular type. It's not as if I start with Madhuri Dixit and then...
I am interested in independent cinema and theatre, and they don't make news.
I look at scripts, and sometimes I apply theory to them. For 'Antiviral,' for example, I was reading Laura Mulvey's 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,' and it was all about the psychological process by which we fetishize the female image....
I'm very interested in cinema that explores emotional journeys and where you can use everything at your disposal cinematically to locate you inside someone's head and their emotional landscape.
I don't think international cinema is ready to embrace mainstream Indian cinema unconditionally. Even Mira Nair's 'Monsoon Wedding' didn't get to the Oscars after being nominated for the Golden Globe Awards.
I was criticised for making 'Devdas' so ostentatious. But stark and realistic cinema isn't the only real cinema in this country.
I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.
When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins...
I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
