Prosenjit Chatterjee Quotes

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

Indians can identify with the Indian sensibilities, and rather than taking something from foreign films, it is always good to make a movie which has been enjoyed by a certain audience or in a certain part of India and make it available to a larger audience.

Earlier, people used to say no to regional films, but now people all over the world have started watching Bengali cinema.

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

I would love to do a Malayalam film if the right script and character comes along.

Kerala is a small state, and Malayalam films are seen by only very few people. That doesn't bother me.

I owe all the name and fame I have earned to regional cinema.

I was mesmerised by South cinema and the kind of work is done out here.

Of course, Malayalam has a slightly different way of working because here at least if the movie is good, it gets some mileage by word of mouth even if you don't have big heroes.

Bollywood works as hard as regional cinema makers.

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!

Overall, I feel that southern cinema, in itself, has taken over the film industry with its content, stories and screenplay.

'Baahubali' has definitely increased hopes for a lot of regional filmmakers. After all, what I have learnt is that it only takes one 'Baahubali' to enter into the audience's hearts and cross the boundaries.

Whenever I used to watch Hollywood films, I used to feel, when would Tollywood make such films?

Bollywood is a different ballgame. I am quite used to Tamil and Telugu films.

Going international is my game. I've always wanted to do it, and after 'Aadukalam,' I got to meet Anurag Kashyap, the face of alternate Indian cinema to the world.

I grew up with Western films, and I always wondered why Bollywood never made films like that. Why do we always have to break into song?

The younger generation of filmmakers is concerned about our roots, rather than making films with characters plucked out of the cloud or some English DVD. Actually since 2000, Tamil cinema is going through some positive changes.

I have acted in all four film industries in the South. I speak all four languages because of my upbringing in various cities.

We are not only having a great audience for Punjabi films in north India but we are also seeing growth in other places like Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Indore, etc. And the overseas audiences have always been good for us. Without them we couldn't have taken Punjabi cinema to such heights.

I don't even miss Bollywood because I was getting to do some amazing work in the regional industry.

Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.

I was offered my first film right after my 10th board exams. Back then, I didn't even know they made films in the South. Films, I thought, were either in Hindi or English.

Having worked in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil film industries, I've been lucky to have travelled far and wide for shoots.

I find the working pattern to be the same in Bollywood as well as Tollywood. Especially because most directors of photography from the Telugu industry operate in Bollywood, too.