I got a lot of exposure because of 'Eega,' as the film was released in Tamil, Hindi, and Malayalam.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

Photography is very personal to me. God knows how many rolls of film I have that I've never shared.

The experience of a film is immersive, and music is supposed to underline and help that experience.

I am fortunate to have acted with a talented film personality like Cheran in two consecutive films.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

I produced and starred in 'Wake the Riderless Horse,' a short film that my buddy wrote and directed.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else.

You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Film is an oversimplification of things. That it really boils things down and makes them too simple.

If the overall quality of your film depends on what you shot it on, you aren't ready to make a film.

I like to watch old films. Meet Me in St Louis, Cul-de-Sac and Buffalo 66 are some of my favourites.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

I became Patti's [Smith] messenger, basically, and the film is my view of how I learned about Patti.

If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

I like to go back and forth between film and theater. When I do film, I miss theater and vice versa.

The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

I found from working on the film that I am a bigot, at times. And that I am also a coward, at times.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.

I have fun making films. I love making films. It's the only thing I know how to do. And I do it well.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

If a film works, you get more offers, appreciation and the latter is like oxygen. We survive on that.

Sometimes, I feel the reason I have become a star beyond my films is that I am politically incorrect.

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I'd never really been able to combine them.

My favorite films are ones that have my lines in it, and I like those lines. And I like to hear them.

Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

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