Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.
In 'Badlapur,' my character's name is Jhumli. It's a special film for me because I got a chance to work with my favourite director, Sriram Raghavan. I'm a huge fan of him.
Effectively, as a cinematographer, I am always on the lookout for a project that makes me want to go to the cinema.
It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.
Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.
I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'.
I think great movies do promote conversation, great movies are honest, and great movies are sometimes polarizing.
Film has always been where my heart is.
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
'Office Space' I loved doing.
I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.
At the end of the day, you don't remember 'Mother India' or 'Pyaasa' for the business it did, you remember them because they had a good story to tell.
I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.
My mum raised me on 'On the Waterfront,' 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Rear Window.'
I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.
I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.
I can't tell at what age I developed this love towards movies, but I've always enjoyed watching films. I've grown up watching the films of my uncles Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan.
I have been watching Hollywood films from childhood.
I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.
I don't think it's right to define films as commercial or art house. What's important is that a film evokes a certain emotion when it's being watched.
Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
A film is a terrible thing to waste.
