Kiran Rao Quotes

My education was an education by movies.

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.

Growing up, I didn't have a chance to watch a lot of films. It wasn't until my teen years that I had to chance to see the classic films.

I grew up watching a lot of film.

I grew up with a deep regard for cinema.

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

I grew up in a film-loving family. We watched the Oscars every year. My favorite thing in the whole world was film. The Oscars obviously was the holy grail.

Movies are a hobby for me. I think storytelling has reached a new level where younger audiences are looking at something more real and contextual.

I have been watching Hollywood films from childhood.

I love all sorts of movies, whether made by Scorsese or Frank Capra. I love them all.

I've never been a big movie person, but I used to watch movies regularly in my life, and sometime in the '90s I just stopped. I certainly never was an educated moviegover.

I grew up in a film lovers' family and I have been watching the best of world cinema from age six.

I've always been a big fan of entertainment. Having cable gave me access to HBO, Showtime, and The Movie Channel. Constantly taking in all these films from different eras and different styles has really given me a good vocabulary in how to talk about movies.

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

I didn't grow up watching movies and thinking, 'Oh, I wanna be in those!'

I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound.

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.

I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young. So, I didn't think about it at the time when 'I Am Legend' came out. I just watched it.

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films.

I spent a lot of - too much of - my childhood watching movies and thinking about movies.