Ishaan Khatter Quotes

I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

I'm not educated about cinema or genres.

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

I went from silent films to watching French new wave cinema. I became entrapped by it all. That's when I knew I wanted to do film. The moment you start looking at film from a critique point of view - there's a difference between watching a film as an audience and with a critical point of view.

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

One of the things I love about cinema is the range.

I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.

I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them.

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Personally, I don't know what I'd do without films.

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.

I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action.

I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.

Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form.

I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.

I had grown up thinking of movies as something to eat popcorn with. Bergman and the other European directors were the first ones to open my eyes to film as art.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

The first time I saw Douglas Sirk was in college. I didn't encounter him on the late, late, late show like a lot of people; people a little older than me, maybe. But I saw him already as someone to take special note of in an academic context in college. I was immediately in a state of visual splendor.

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.