I used to run a Japanese review website way back in the day, around about 2003, 2004. It was just my own little personal thing, because I was just obsessed with Japanese cinema.

There's always that romantic Hollywood element to it. But people appreciate 'Top Boy' because it is what it is.

I never control a film. The film controls me.

I think I'd have to say that 'The Shining' is my scariest movie ever.

It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.

I think what actors have to do, what performers have to do to emotionally get to that place and have a camera and have your face 20 feet high on a screen, is such an incredible thing.

My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, 'Bronzeville,' in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we're developing into a television show. It deals with a very tight-knit...

When I watched Guru Dutt's films, they just blew my mind.

Revathi madam is a legend, and I have seen young actresses set her performance as a benchmark.

I was a huge horror fan, especially in my teenage years. Back then, there were a lot of Italian horror movies - some zombie, some just really strange movies that made no sense. I was really into shock...

Nagpur was a very small town. There was no exposure to different kinds of films or world cinema. Only Manmohan Desai films.

I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a...

'Junglee' was a magical journey. When you see the visuals of the film or the song 'Fakeera,' it reminds you of Dehradun.

Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up,...

Whenever someone asks me to name a dream hero or pair, I always end up getting Bollywood names in my mind.

'Masaan' was a life-changing experience.

Somewhere in the '60s, actors became wimps and basket-case psychotics.

In Bengali films, I played my version of glamorous, where I played a wide-ranging characters.

When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning,...

'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'

In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic...

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.