Amitabh Bachchan
Related Indian cinema is no more limited to audiences in India. We have viewers all around the world, and he... MADHUR BHANDARKAR ANURAG KASHYAP PAWAN KALYAN AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a ... RAHUL GANDHI AMITABH BACHCHAN I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. F... FREIDA PINTO AMITABH BACHCHAN Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports. ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our ... LAVRENTI LOPES GERARD DEPARDIEU AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I really felt that Indian audiences would be ready for a feature like this one. There are now many I... ARJUN SABLOK BIPASHA BASU IMTIAZ ALI I'm confident that this festival will help redefine our film industry and put us on the map of world... MORSHED KHAN 'Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that. FREDDIE HIGHMORE SCOTT DERRICKSON The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema ... BRIAN COX I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art his... GEORGE HICKENLOOPER In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN My cinema -- the '50s, '60s -- is different from the cinema today so I thought that it would not be ... GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA RHYS IFANS JEAN-LUC GODARD I prefer the Telugu film industry, as women are respected more than they are in the Tamil film indus... KAJAL AGGARWAL For Greek cinema, this is a very high-budget film. Hollywood producers, as they have done throughout... NEOVI KARAKATSANIS GEORGE ELIOT Whilst much attention has been given to UK companies outsourcing jobs to India, the fact is that suc... MICHAEL CHARLTON Shyam Benegal has found a lovely voice in this film. We've all seen the kind of cinema he's ... BOMAN IRANI No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of viole... STAFFORD CRIPPS The risks of piracy spreading beyond the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast, and in the ... PETER MIDDLEBROOK Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always ... ART MALIK ASHWIN SANGHI STANLEY DONEN FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA One of the icons of the civil aviation industry is returning. It's the shot in the arm that the indu... CHRIS YATES KARAN JOHAR The definition of political cinema is one I don't agree with, because every film, every show, is... GIAN MARIA VOLONTE BIPASHA BASU Some of our competitors believe (digital cinema) is ready for prime time. We believe that, like film... CURT BEHLMER SALMAN RUSHDIE The Indian government has not shot itself in the foot. Most likely it has shot itself in the head, .... JESSE HELMS Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cine... CRISPIN GLOVER BABA KALYANI One of the thrills of playing at the top tennis centres of the world is to see the Indian flag go up... SANIA MIRZA Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and o... ARJUNA MAHENDRAN I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian... M. F. HUSAIN CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR BAHMAN GHOBADI LESLIE CARON KATHRYN BIGELOW We don't need to worry about the Indian nuclear tests if India has agreed not to have these weapons ... JESSE HELMS All foreign food is doomed to be consumed in India not so much by Indians as by a voracious Indian s... AMIT CHAUDHURI I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing In... SHERMAN ALEXIE GERARD DEPARDIEU While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are ... MADHUR BHANDARKAR ROBERTO BENIGNI AZIM PREMJI WONG KAR-WAI I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing... GUILLERMO DEL TORO JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD JOE BIDEN ROBERT BADEN-POWELL JEAN-LUC GODARD SHAH RUKH KHAN AMITABH BACHCHAN Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it. SHAHRUKH KHAN CHANDA KOCHHAR The need of the hour is to promote good cinema and for this it needs to be incorporated in the acade... ADOOR GOPALAKRISHNAN Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I... JEREMY SPENCER Basically, the delegation is coming to discuss the proposal that Pakistan had given to India on allo... TASNIM ASLAM VIKRAM PATEL Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to... STAFFORD CRIPPS ANURAG KASHYAP Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical roo... AARTI SEQUEIRA V. S. NAIPAUL I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is. MALAIKA ARORA KHAN RUPI KAUR In my experience there are billions of dollars available for pieces of shit. As soon as the material... RUTGER HAUER When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alterna... ANDREI TARKOVSKY Directing, I realize, on film is far more personal, you know. Cinema really is a director's medium. ... SAM MENDES ROLAND JOFFE NELSON A. MILES The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational tra... PALLAM RAJU As far as my projects are concerned, I have always maintained a healthy balance. My south Indian pro... GENELIA D'SOUZA IRA SACHS Indian gaming, I don't regard it as a competitive industry. Anything that helps the tribe become sel... JEFF BRAY RANBIR KAPOOR Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant... BRUNO DUMONT There can be a deal but it involves action on the Indian side and right now all the signals are that... DANIELLE PLETKA Movies suddenly became "film" and "cinema" an "art form" and terribly chic. . . JUDITH CRIST SALMAN RUSHDIE The Seattle film community is at a grass-roots level. Large film communities used to be small ones. ... EDDIE SMITH I loved that breadth, and also the fact that in interpreting Indian civilization itself, its cultura... AMARTYA SEN FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT There is a lot of Indian connect in 'Million Dollar Arm'. It is about two Indian boys, and w... MADHUR MITTAL BEN KINGSLEY SHAH RUKH KHAN
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