Ronnie Screwvala Quotes

India is a country with huge potential, and it remains an attractive high priority market for PepsiCo. We believe we have only scratched the surface of long term growth opportunities that exist for PepsiCo and our partners.

If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.

The movie business has been in enormous flux. It's always changing, and you've got to scramble. The Internet came along and devoured the DVD backend of the movie business. Suddenly you're watching dollars turn into nickels, and that's interesting to me.

It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

The average movie-goer in this country sees six films in a year. That's one every two months. What the studios are trying to do is make sure it's their movie.

It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money.

If my films did better at the box office in Japan, it would be easier to get them made.

U.K. aid spending in India is that it ensures that we are able to work with our partners to develop their markets, business and enterprise, to boost labour standards and rights and, ultimately, to boost the incomes of the poorest which, in the long term, boosts demand for British goods and services.

India is a fast-growth market and is developing a lot. We continue to increase our partners here and make investments.

When we're looking at strategic partners, it may be that they're larger partners or big corporations or start-ups. But, when you look at Gilt and places like Amazon and Starbucks, they're all places where it's a lot of foot traffic or digital traffic.

Cinema in India is growing big time and people abroad have started recognising us.

If my film doesn't make money, it means people didn't go watch it. So it doesn't matter then that the critics loved it.

There has been a stigma around letting movies be seen on home screens on the same day as theatrical screens. Universal said they were going to do it with 'Tower Heist,' but they backed off when challenged by the theater owners. I understand where the theater owners are coming from on big studio movies.

Media is the first important portion of any cinema industry.

You cannot predict how well a film will do.

I just want to do movies, and I want to sell them. I don't want to link up with some product.

What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?

With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.

There are decent people that I know who don't know how to treat their partner. It's been built up so hard and so high that people are afraid.

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.

My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.

In a marriage, you and your partner come first. And unless you and your partner are happy, that kid's never going to be happy.

Anybody can be Prince Charming one day a year, with the dinner and the flowers and all that. But you know what impresses me? When a guy can do that NO days a year.

In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.

I'm very open with my business partners, just like I am with my husband.