Ammy Virk Quotes

My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.'

On 'Platoon' I was offered in 1984 a very tiny part that Ivan Kane would go on to play. Then the financing fell out, and the film was scuttled for two years.

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

I really like 'Passion of the Christ.' I like that movie. I also like 'We Were Soldiers,' and 'Braveheart.' And 'Napoleon Dynamite' - that movie was funny.

I was in Hyderabad shooting for a Telugu film with Mahesh Babu when Aamir called, saying he wanted me to play the widow Jwala in 'Mangal Pandey.'

I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.

Doing 'Magnificent Seven' was a no-brainer.

Who would say no to a film like 'Gunday?'

I would love to do a Punjabi film.

I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.

'Lakshya' is a different genre of movie. While 'Dil Chahta Hai' could be categorised as a romantic comedy, this is a war drama.

In the year 1943 my grandfather, Shri Vijay Bhatt made a film by the name of 'Ram Rajya.'

I would love to do a period film and work with Shyam Benegal.

If someone ever decides to tell my story, it will make for a typical masala movie.

If 'Sajjan Singh Rangroot' showed seriousness through the First World War, 'Carry On Jatta 2' had a great dose of comedy.

You don't say no to a Shankar film.

Thugs of Hindostan' is the quintessential Hindi movie that we love to watch with our friends and families.

Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.

Bollywood is such a space where you get to work with so many genres. Genres being pushed isn't the way of looking at it. In fact, I think Indie needs to be given a lot more focus or recognition.

I have been a Salman Khan fan since childhood and I have grown up watching his films.

People think I am joking when I say my favourite actors are Shammi Kapoor and Dara Singh.

Mainstream Bengali cinema unashamedly tries to copy Bollywood. They forget that they don't have the kind of budgets that Hindi filmmakers have.

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

I have done Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi movies, and each actor that I've worked with is different from the other.

'Khoobsurat' was an eye-opener in many ways. Cinema is a colossal money-churning business in India, and working in that environment offered me quite an incredible learning experience.