Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money.
I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.
Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.
The movie business has been in enormous flux. It's always changing, and you've got to scramble. The Internet came along and devoured the DVD backend of the movie business. Suddenly you're watching dollars turn into nickels, and that's interesting to me.
Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.
I am hard put to think of a single positive thing that commercial Hindi cinema has achieved.
There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.
I've learnt so much since I joined cinema. I just want to take it as a positive experience.
I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.
I would love to be directed by more women.
In Indian cinema there are no professional voice trainers.
Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.
I truly believe that cinema is a collaborative effort, and as long as I get to tell, and be part of, interesting stories and work with genuine people, I don't see any project as a 'risk.'
2019 is proving to be a golden year of Malayalam cinema... As an actor, I have always classified films as either good ones or bad ones... I had five films that released this year in the cinemas and our audiences liked every one of them.
The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.
There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.
The Indian film industry is very, very vibrant. It is a mix like it is in Hollywood - there is a lot of highly commercial cinema.
I enjoy going back to work now because cinema is going through an exciting period because young people are now going back to the movie theaters. But things are different though.
Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.
Cinema in India is growing big time and people abroad have started recognising us.
Hindi film and southern film industries are doing well when it comes to technical know how. By and large, they are pretty similar and are close knit industries.
Jayalalithaa was brutalised from the age of 16 in the cinema world. She therefore bears a psychotic pleasure in humiliating people as she was humiliated. She was deadened to normal human emotions.
I would be stupid to say no to Bollywood. It is the biggest film industry in our country.
