Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
As for radio and movies, I like the movies better, although the work is much harder. The cinema has microphone technique, staging, and glamour all wrapped up into one.
I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early '60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.
It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.
I like it when I go into a cinema and I'm not aware that I'm there; I'm totally involved in the film for two hours.
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I'm comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven't been comfortable.
It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers make those kind of films is the best way to do it.
The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.
I felt like, you know, my presence in the world of cinema had a different meaning than Meryl Streep... There was an impact that was made, but it wasn't the usual.
I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.
With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
