Sonali Bendre Quotes

I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?

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

I respect Malayalam films the same way I respect Bengali films. I think Malayalam films have not compromised on the essence and have kept their own statement and are coming up with very good themes.

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

Somehow, Hindi movies never took me in the same way Hollywood films did. Even at the age of five or six, I could see the difference in the quality of execution.

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

Some of my scripts need the larger catchment area of Bollywood. But some suit Telugu films.

I want to do Indian films based on scripts with a universal appeal.

I came from Hyderabad and didn't know the difference between commercial and parallel cinema.

Bollywood is such a space where you get to work with so many genres. Genres being pushed isn't the way of looking at it. In fact, I think Indie needs to be given a lot more focus or recognition.

I don't think that I will say that we are less talented in Bollywood, but our functioning is different. We cater to a different kind of audience.

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.

A lot of people in India are not that into non-Indian films or Western films.

Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.

I've love the challenge of doing something new. Bollywood is magical.

With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.

We must have song and dance in our lives; we've had it ever since the inception of cinema in India. Our stories are very social-based, very human-based. We are a very emotional nation.

When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.

I've not really watched too many English films. I've grown up watching Indian cinema, mostly.

I am a movie buff - I even claim I am a Hindi film encyclopedia post 1988(only because that was the year I was born in... haha).

I loved 'Highway.' It was amazing. I have watched Imtiaz Ali's other films, too, and he is one of my favourite Bollywood directors, besides Vishal Bhardwaj and Mani Ratnam.