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I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible.
I was criticised for making 'Devdas' so ostentatious. But stark and realistic cinema isn't the only real cinema in this country.
The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.
Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
The Indian film industry is very, very vibrant. It is a mix like it is in Hollywood - there is a lot of highly commercial cinema.
I think 'Lost' didn't invent the flashback, obviously. It's been a cinematic tool. It's been around almost as long as cinema has.
To my mind any phenomenon is paracinematic if it shares one element with cinema, e.g., modularity with respect to space and time.
If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think its foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
I don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.
I absolutely loathe adverts. I won't go into the cinema until 20 minutes after the film is due to start because there are so many.
I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.
I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.
Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.
People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.
If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
I want to do all kind of films. I don't want to be bracketed into one kind of cinema and if somebody does that, then it is on them.
I prefer watching people on a screen, and I've had the most pleasurable people-watching experiences at the Palace Cinema in Balwyn.
Cinema and, most of all, films have changed my life much more than theatre or television. And that is the reason why I'm an actress.
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.
I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition.
Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.
The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
I hate that people think going to the theatre is a special occasion. I wish people would treat it as normally as going to the cinema.
I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.
My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful.
A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.
As an actor, I am only excited about doing good work - be it in mainstream Hindi cinema, Hollywood, a French film, or a Marathi movie.
Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing.
The professionalism and everything is same in both the industries. The only difference between Bhojpuri cinema and Bollywood is budget.
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.
I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.
It is important that alongside the blockbusters there are stories that can inspire and audiences can experience together in the cinema.
What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can
For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinema became a kind of pilgrimage site.
Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.
I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely.
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.
It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.
We need women in cinema to know first that they have a safe space to open up about their struggles without being judged and marginalised.
When I was in Lochgelly as a boy, I went to the cinema every night - and on Sundays, I used to go to Cowdenbeath and see something there.
I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.