Cinematic Journey Quotes

When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'

When film director T.K. Rajeevkumar cast me in the role of the iconic Rathi in the new edition of 'Rathinirvedam,' I had no idea it was such a cult film.

I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party.

Apoorva Raagangal,' 'Moondru Mudichu,' 'Avargal' - these were all my guru K. Balachander's films; I became a hero with these three films.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.

For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinema became a kind of pilgrimage site.

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.

I'll fully admit that when I went to the movie theater and saw 'Titanic,' I cried afterwards.

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.

'2001: A Space Odyssey' - I'd watched and hated it seven times before it provided the first 'religious experience' I'd ever had watching a film. Finally, I was able to pick up on what the film was transmitting almost entirely through dialogue.

When I did my first film, I was in college; I did it as a senior thesis. The original version was 60 minutes. But I developed it and made it almost 90 minutes. In 2007, it premiered in Venice, and I stopped in London to develop a script with my dad that fell apart, and we started 'Gravity.'

I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.

I fall in love with every film while I'm doing it. I fall in love with the directors, I fall in love with the process. I don't think I could do it otherwise.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

Through these years, I have attempted to create magical moments between my characters because, be it television or films, life is about the moments we create while living through it.

While still a young student at film school, I was lucky enough to get a golden ticket to a Martin Scorsese master class at BAFTA in Piccadilly: fancy, but technically still 'the flicks'.

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

It was great for that to be my first movie with such a wonderful cast, and such a huge movie. And now I get to do The Fighting Temptations, which is coming out soon-it wasn't much of a character, it was more of a real person, so I got to show more of my acting range.

Since being at Marvel, I've been watching everything over and over and over again, all the movies, and seeing how all the movies connect has been very satisfying for me.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

All I'm doing is being in films that I would watch if I wasn't in this industry.

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.