Suriya (Saravanan Sivakumar) Quotes
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
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I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.
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I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.
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'Magadheera' is a lovely film which can't be recreated.
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In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.
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The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.
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I'm glad that my films have been consistently faring well rather than one stray Friday!
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The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
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Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.
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Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach.
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The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
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Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.
