Shruti Haasan Quotes

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.

I watched aspirationally. I looked at movies that maybe I didn't entirely understand but which developed in me some thirst for their subjects or for their context, and that became part of how I came to understand the world.

Every film you see at a festival teaches you something.

I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

I did learn a lot from 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' but I've learned different things from different films.

I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.

I am extremely eclectic in choosing my films as an audience, and as a direct result of that, I love exploring, I love cinema, and I love learning from different experiences.

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

I relate to all kinds of film.

If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this?'

There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.

Film is my first love. It wasn't something I intended to fall in love with, but I grew to love it.

I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn't been interested in and cultural things I hadn't been aware of and economic factors I hadn't thought about.

I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films.

No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

Growing up, I just loved movies. It was how I saw the world, which I wanted to learn more about.

I was always told that films were evil and such, but I started to realise what a load of crap it was that something this good should be forbidden. I had been allowed to read as much as I wanted when I was younger, so I recognised great art when I saw it; I just didn't realise it would be at the cinema as well.

I grew up watching a lot of film.

I do love Turner Classic Movies, because I feel like I'm not wasting as much time. I'm almost educating myself if I watch that.

There are so many films I lean on and look toward and return to that give me some guidance on how to keep moving in the world, and that's what film does, at its best.

I'll be honest: 'Badlands' changed my life: it really did rewire my brain as to how film can operate.

I go to watch the so-called mainstream films for different reasons. I certainly like those films if they are giving me something new to look out for.