Jackie Shroff Quotes

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

For me, any kind of thing that has stood for 100 years tells me of the health of that thing. So, cinema completing a hundred years in India just says that it is very healthy.

In India, the films are not looked upon just as entertainment. They're a way of life.

There are no really new stories anymore.

There is nothing wrong with commercial cinema if it is made well. In fact, if you ask me, the Hindi film industry has also produced some truly outstanding works over the years.

The younger generation of filmmakers is concerned about our roots, rather than making films with characters plucked out of the cloud or some English DVD. Actually since 2000, Tamil cinema is going through some positive changes.

I think that the Punjabi film industry is growing and is keen to experiment with different genres.

Every time I watched 'K3G,' I buried my face in my hands and wept.

I'm kind of like an open wound all the time, and that's hard. It's hard to deal with, especially in this industry. Every time I leave a movie, I feel like I'm going to die. Because you connect with these people, and then they all leave. I wish I wasn't like that, but I am.

It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

It is my good fortune that I am the first Sikh to be playing lead roles in Hindi films.

I think Anand Rai is one of the few brilliant directors we have.

Baghban' happened with me when I was very new. I played a nasty daughter-in-law, to somebody I have idolised all my life: My Amitabh Bachchan.

I am honored to be a part of that film. It has a really important message, embracing one's individuality. It was the most universal film I've ever read.

I was around New York at a time when independent cinema was at its peak and became kind of popular and mainstream. It got some hype, culturally. After that, studios started to have independent companies within their studio system, and they found bigger stars willing to do new material. That's kind of what it's turned into.

I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.

I'd like to think that if you find your audience there are still opportunities there to go and tell an original story.

You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on.

Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.

I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for.

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life. But Hollywood has forgotten that, in the past, what made Hollywood great and what made it go ahead was the fact that Hollywood was fed with, for example, Jewish directors coming from Germany or Austria and enriching Hollywood. In 15, 20 years, Hollywood became imperialistic. Cinema goes ahead when it is marriaged by other culture. Otherwise, it turns on itself.

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.

I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.

It is clear that through the partnerships between Global Cool and the International Indian Film Academy, Indian cinema has the potential to provide great leadership by exciting its enormous and enthusiastic audience to do their bit to save the planet

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.