Baltasar Kormakur Quotes

Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with.

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

Our films have immense power, and we have always accepted international artistes with open arms. If Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone can do wonders in Hollywood, then they can also do it here.

I am a rebellious North Indian girl and I was not sure if I would have said yes to a film like 'Rajma Chawal' if it would not be from South as it allows me to challenge myself.

What I try to do is defy expectations in terms of boundaries, whether it is high or low art, pop culture, or fine-art culture. My work is about reconciling myriad cultural influences and bringing them into one picture.

Actors love to do good work irrespective of country and borders.

The proliferation of styles, genres, and media need not be the death knell of anything. Instead, it's a sign that our acceptance for variation and experimentation has become wider, our interests have become more diverse, and our appetites have become more omnivorous.

'Housewives' opened the door for me for people to listen.

Jennifer Lopez, she opened so many doors for Latinas such as myself.

The great art of the past became great because it started to go out of the perimeters that defined art and defined new territories.

When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that's how I got work and connected with people. You don't need to plead for entry into a system that doesn't want you anyway.

My thing is to get people out of the stigma of what a reggae artist should be like.

I always say I'm just eternally grateful for this role because Raven Reyes defies all stereotypes. It's revolutionary for a character on television, and it's also extremely creatively liberating as an artist.

We still have a lot of work to do as African artists to get more recognition in the U.K. and the U.S., but right now, definitely, we're getting the recognition. The thing is we have to earn it. Keep working. Stay working.

I want to keep pushing those boundaries of acting.

I want to take that step, being a Latin girl, and doing my Spanish music, but I want to go global. International.

The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the U.S. market. It demeans filmmaking when they do that.

It's very Finnish to think you can't make it outside Finland.

I showed that once again a guy from the 'favela,' from the community, it taking over the world.

Ricky Martin just kind of opened a big door, but it's always been around. Latin artists have always been there, but some of them were never doing it in the U.S.

I think I'm very fortunate to have a pan-Indian appeal.

I'm very open to making films anywhere in the world.

I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.

As a middle class girl from Delhi, with practically no backing in films, this industry and the audience have given me a lot of love.