I never sit in a cinema and go, "Ah! I want to be in that film!"
One of my assistants was on Instagram and showed me how it was working. I thought it was playful, the way you go through images, a little like cinema. It's a bit like a filmstrip that's animated by your finger.
Even if I don't see Brooklyn I have to see Anomolisa, because it's Charlie Kaufman. No one is doing things that they should't be doing more in cinema than Charlie Kaufman. This is how I look at it: he had an incredible story that was going to resonate regardless, but just shooting that movie is too easy for Charlie Kaufman.
Cinema and emotion trump reality for me.
I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.
My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life
My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It's the spectator, finally, who's going to construct the menace and the fear.
Cinema has no boundaries...we all belong to the same artistic community.
That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.
I have no regrets. If I wanted to keep acting, I would have never left the cinema.
The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.
In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.
Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.
I mean, the paradox is that whereas the screen, it seems to me - the cinema can absorb endless amounts of music, it cannot really with comfort absorb large amounts of words. Not nearly as many words, that is to say, as a stage can.
It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.
There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema are exploring some really bold themes.
Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.
I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.
The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.
Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.
I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.
Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.
We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.
The best cinema is about ethics.
I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.
