Radhika Apte Quotes

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.

I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.

I am a citizen of the planet and I want to do films that appeal to people, not communities.

I want people to listen to my music all over the world and relate to it and feel it the way I feel it.

We feel it's really interesting to see how our music translates to such a broad audience.

I want to do Indian films based on scripts with a universal appeal.

My music is for the world. Let them enjoy it.

Language should not be a barrier for an actor; I want the world to see my work and not limit it to Hindi-speaking audiences.

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

Korean films have always been distributed to international audiences as arthouse films.

I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.

More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

If you're a film studio, you're making a movie for a foreign market. You're pursuing ideas that travel well. It changes the movies we see and how movies are made.

I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.

I look at the feature films that come out, and by and large, 85 percent of them are things I wouldn't in a million years sit down and watch. The more interesting storytelling is happening on television by a long shot.

I've always wanted my art to be global rather than local. I want to make paintings that people everywhere can relate to.

Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.

I truly believe in cinema's potential for cultural impact. I have a clear idea what I want to do - to enrich people's lives.

I love independent film so much, and that's kind of where I made my mark.

At the end of the day, I would like to have the farthest reach in terms of being able to communicate to as many people as possible. So it's not that I enjoy being obscure; it's that I sonically don't want to be situated here or there.

I have always thought of films as stories for the world.

There were about 400 heads of state from countries all over the world. I walked out and played 'Hotel California,' and everybody in the place gave me a standing ovation, and half of those countries don't even speak English.