Film Commitment Quotes

When you do a Tom Cruise movie, you don't do a Tom Cruise movie and ask a lot of questions.

You don't say no to a Shankar film.

I'll do whatever it takes for a movie. I don't really care what that is.

I do one film at a time. I can't wake up early. I can't do too many films.

I definitely had to be talked into 'American Pie: Reunion.' I was hesitant because I'm on a show, and I felt, 'I'm happy. I've got my family.' But then I met the directors, who also wrote it, and once I read the script, I was like, 'OK, sign me up.'

I don't want to do a film where I have a ten minute role.

When I'm on a movie, I'm unavailable every day for a year and a half. You can't do that with a little baby. Somebody might be able to do it, but not me.

It's always hard to be away and relocate. When you relocate for a film, there's an end in sight.

Films are not a part-time job. They take months to make and require long-time commitment; so, you can't do a half-hearted job.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

I have a life beyond the camera. I like to travel. I need a breather between movies. And I don't think I can do that if I work on five films at the same time.

I am bound by a contract to not accept other films until 'Mohenjo Daro's release.

Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.

I said yes to 'Nymphomaniac' before it was written.

I feel bad to keep someone hanging. So if I'm not inclined to do a film, I am forthright about my decision.

I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.

I would even commit seven years to a film for Rajamouli.

My commitments are for Punjabi films - I want to work for the industry to uplift it.

I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

I read the script for 'Somnia' when I was filming 'Oculus,' and I remember calling my manager going, 'I really need to do this movie,' and he's like, 'How about you finish this one first and then you see it?' I was like, 'I don't need to. I don't need to. You need to read this. I need to do this movie. The script is very good.'

I did eight months of training for 'Wimbledon,' and then, by the time I finished the movie another four months later, I was like, 'That's me. I'm done with tennis.'

I don't want to commit to too many films, as it would result in getting out of touch with what is happening in the industry.

I'd love to do something at Marvel, but I don't think I would do a seven-movie deal. That's a bit too much for me.

It's very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I'm able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story - responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods.

I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people. With technology now, people are getting more and more isolated. I like the community coming around the story. You don't have that with a DVD. People go home, they're tired from work, they can turn it off. It doesn't make you commit the same way, if you can control the movie. More difficult movies, it's too easy to turn them off. All the time, I see movies I know if I had seen it on DVD, I wouldn't have hung with it. If you see it on the screen, you hang with it and it pays off better than a movie you can easily sit through on DVD.