Arunachalam Muruganantham Quotes

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.

I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.

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

'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.

'G.I. Joe' is a $200 million movie. The makeup trailer was as big as my house! It was a whole other different production. It blows me away. I'm just going, 'Wow, I'm in that.'

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.

There's no need to live in L.A. Half of Hollywood's films are shot in London, anyway.

We always hope we can make a movie that will beat America.

The crazy thing about 'Hook' was it was one of the movies in town that everybody knew about. It was the biggest film shooting in Hollywood at the time and the idea of Robin Williams playing Peter Pan really captured everybody's imagination.

I love the fact that Bollywood is getting so much more globalised. Instead of us looking out there, people are looking to India and coming to us!

I'm not sure if my story will become a movie. Some of my western friends sent my story to people they know in the movie industry. But one consistent response was there aren't any main western characters in my story, so it's unlikely to be made into a movie in English.

I like to say, in Hollywood, you can't make a redneck movie without me. That doesn't happen. You better not do it.

Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

Somebody once said that Hollywood is based on a lot of producers deliberately making bad movies, and every now and then somebody gets lucky.

Hollywood - an emotional Detroit.