Sushmita Sen Quotes

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.

I gravitate much more toward realism, realism in the work that I do, but magical realism got me hooked on film. I think it was my first time realizing that there was something besides popcorn movies.

'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

I have my strong faith, respect, and belief in Rajamouli sir. The fact that he believed I could play 'Baahubali' was huge for me.

Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

There are very few films that work like a novel.

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable.

Movies are too literal.

The more I make films, the more I feel less inclined to talk about them and just let people watch them. I feel that the pictures are telling the story, and I can't really add anything except just talking about the technicalities of what happened on the day.

Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to something a little higher, you're just kicking your butt around the corner. You can only take so much of that. You have to have some sort of foundation to explode from.