Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.
When I was a kid, there was no DVD, no VHS. The only way to re-live a movie once it was out of the theater was to listen to its film score.
Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.
When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.
Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?
Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.
How can the country that created electricity, the light bulb, modern cinema as we know it, and the Oscar Meyer Weenie Whistle not be purely awesome?
I am obsessed with cinema and its history.
I loved Ingrid Bergman. I sat and saw her on the stage in a theater in the round.
Many from Peshawar starred in our film industry and Lahore too was the hub of films before the Partition.
The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.
My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill.
I am doing the remake of 'Bai Chali Sasariye,' which was my debut in the Rajasthani film industry. It became a major critical and commercial hit in the history of Rajasthani cinema.
When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.
It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.'
My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.
Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.
Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.
Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.
I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did.
The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul.
For the whole history of cinema, we've been experiencing movies and television through a two-dimensional, letterboxed window. But once you can start programming entertainment for all the different senses, it becomes a wholly different medium.
I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.
