- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours.
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My films often have a spiritual dimension which comes from my Muslim background, and I'm happy to tackle that in cinema.
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In cinema, you can see an actor but he can't see you. On stage, there's a one-to-one and an eye-to-eye connection.
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It is the same actor in theatre and cinema, just the technique of acting changes.
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It is good that people are experimenting with cinema. They are trying to do serious and soulful cinema but such films don't stay in theatres for over a week. People ultimately go and watch Salman, Shah Rukh and Amir Khan films.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quality cinema is not changing anything, everything is the same. The artistes and other people involved in these films get some recognition at international film festivals and award shows only.
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I have seen Hollywood artistes like Al Pacino, Tom Cruise and Tim Burton doing theatre and Broadway shows. Cinema actors tend to go back to theatre because it gives them an opportunity to reinvent themselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't make pronouncements about the entirety of Iranian cinema, because there's such a great number of filmmakers and because of the diversity of points of view and filmmaking attitudes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My role in 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a cameo, but it did expose me to cinema and took me to Cannes. I then did 'Prague,' which was a very niche film.
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'Slumdog' initiated a chain of events like going to Cannes and being invited to the Cairo Film Festival, which changed my perspective of cinema and of being an actor forever.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Web is going to become very big... The format is different in terms of its storytelling pattern and its duration. Web audience enjoys watching stuff on the go, they prefer to watch it alone. It is isolated viewing while cinema is collective viewing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cinema is an art form.
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