Films Quotes
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.
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Balachander is my inspiration. He had a heart problem 40 years back. He has been making films for another 46 years. He can never grow old. My father used to be like that until he suffered a stroke. Then I suddenly realized he was an old man.That's also true of my brothers Chandra Haasan and to an extent Charu Haasan.I can never imagine them being old.
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I personally like to do independent films.
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I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.
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When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
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I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
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I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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I have died in enough TV and films.
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You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
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'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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I grew up on films.
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They do put my films on TV from time to time. I don't go out of my way to watch them. But I'm now made to tape them for my daughter so that when she's old enough she can say, 'Hey, that's Daddy.'
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I love being able to change from big films to small films.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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I prefer doing feature films.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
