Sai Pallavi Quotes

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?

I didn't quit movies. They quit me.

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

I'm shying away from getting lost in really bad movies for really good money.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

I thought that making movies was drab. I'd lived through that. And I didn't want to use my parents, ever... They didn't want to push me into this business.

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

I turned down a lot of films.

My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world.

I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.

I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

Hollywood's a big place, and they make all sorts of different movies. Some movies I'm attracted to; a lot of the movies I'm not. But there are some terrifically talented people over there that I'd love to work with.

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

I love filmmakers.

People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.

I have been asked to direct many times and usually said no.