Ishaan Khatter Quotes

I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.

I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.

You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.

This is an old film from donkeys' years ago, but the first film I ever… the first time I ever cried watching a movie was when I was watching 'The Champ.'

My approach to selecting a film is very simple - it should touch my heart.

Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.

Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

I don't like comedy that makes me feel worse about the world than I already felt before I turned it on.

Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.

I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.

Movies should make people uncomfortable sometimes.

I'll fully admit that when I went to the movie theater and saw 'Titanic,' I cried afterwards.

Showing 'Get Out' to a room full of strangers and having them react lets them be introspective and see the way certain images affect other people.

'The Notebook' made me cry! It got me.

I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.

I always cry when Mufasa dies in 'The Lion King.' I just can't handle it.

Even if somebody wanted to tell me what one of my songs meant to him or her, I can't do it - I would be probably put to tears every time.

End of Days is a lot of impact; it makes people open their eyes. It makes a statement.

I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film.

When I go to a live show, I want to be moved. That's why you do it. And it's not very often that a band will move you live.

The task is to influence and create a reaction in the audience. In my opinion, any reaction of a human being in the audience, I think this is great. It means we touched the person's soul.

Certain films should only be watched at 40,000 feet. Like, certain comedies and certain, uh, emotionally charged movies.