Rana Daggubati Quotes

Criticism is okay from people who know the finer points of cinema.

I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

I'm not a film snob.

Politicians need a film appreciation course.

I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

Different films have different places in people's lives. I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.

It would be nice if all people who saw movies had some sort of basic understanding of what they're looking at, but I don't think you can assume that.

Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life.

I wasn't a film buff.

I had a very late introduction to films. We didn't watch a lot of films while growing up in Kolkata.

There's a really geeky YouTube channel which I love. It's a guy called Oliver Harper. He makes documentaries about films. He's a real movie buff - there's loads of trivia and detail.

I grew up in a film lovers' family and I have been watching the best of world cinema from age six.

I've always been a big fan of entertainment. Having cable gave me access to HBO, Showtime, and The Movie Channel. Constantly taking in all these films from different eras and different styles has really given me a good vocabulary in how to talk about movies.

I'd never studied film. I had movies that I loved and movie stars that I looked up to, but I really had not seen a lot of the great classic films that he felt like he wanted me to see before I took on such a huge role.

My son, he has a film group, a bunch of film nerds that sit around and screen movies, and when they had Mary Steenburgen Night, the two movies they screened were 'Melvin And Howard' and 'Clifford.'

Like all artists, I'm a complete cinephile; I see everything. I see past movies, present movies, indie movies, experimental movies.

In my experience, very few people walk out of a movie. You have them for two hours, and you're free to explain or not explain whatever you see fit.