- 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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
Karzzz is my way' of paying homage to the mesmerising cinema of '80s, to Subhash Ghai's revered cult film 'Karz.'
- Cross Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always believed that cinema has no language and 'Dead End' has proved it so.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compare with a country like China, India has very few cinema screens, as we have real estate problems.
- Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 think what kind of film.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. It's all about scopophilia.
- Golden Globe
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was criticised for making 'Devdas' so ostentatious. But stark and realistic cinema isn't the only real cinema in this country.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bollywood works as hard as regional cinema makers.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Celebrate
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- Nov 07, 2020