- Hindi
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up watching cinema in my country that wasn't telling stories about us, and we had to find a way to connect, and our references, our role models had nothing to do with us. And I'm so glad that it's changing.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dream is to become a director. I want to direct a Hindi film. I have two scripts ready. One of them is a fantasy-adventure, while the other is a thriller. I've assisted my brother Selvaraghavan, who's a well-known director in Tamil cinema. I've also made short films.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind acting in Hindi films, but the script has to suit me. It has to be a boy-next-door role because that's the image I have in Tamil cinema.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer being called director Aishwarya Dhanush's husband. She and I share our passion for cinema, but at home, we hardly talk about it. Instead, we share other interests.
- Oh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.
- Encounters
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be typecast as a heroine who does a certain kind of cinema, which is why I experiment with the types of films that I do. But yes, I won't deny that romantic love stories or romantic comedies are what I enjoy doing the most, because as an audience those are the kind of films that I like watching.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've not really watched too many English films. I've grown up watching Indian cinema, mostly.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
- Enrich
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- Nov 07, 2020