Prithviraj Sukumaran Quotes

I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.

I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.

We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.

Box office is one of the strongest tools we have toward preserving our ability to make our movies. We really can make a difference by purchasing a ticket each opening weekend to a movie made by a woman, even if you don't like the movie or the filmmaker and even if you don't see the film.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands what you want to do and is really supportive of it.

I really hope people go out and support the indie filmmakers, because it's a dying breed and there's a lot of cool voices out there that need to be heard.

There's like a shift in the paradigm about every 15 years in movies because one would slip through the cracks. I think if they were more inexpensive you would see many more eclectic comedies being made.

The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.

Cinema is the most important of all the arts for us.

I love filmmakers.

The business has changed, and some people can keep talking about theatrical in these wondrous terms - it will survive, but it becomes narrower what you can make. So the films I'm most interested in, studios - or even the independents - aren't making them. I'm mostly interested in people.

A lot of people don't know the passion I have for Asian American cinema.

You can't be pretentious about what we do, because at the end of the day, movies are about entertainment, and if people get 10 dollars' worth, then that's okay.

I truly believe in cinema's potential for cultural impact. I have a clear idea what I want to do - to enrich people's lives.

I want the audience to watch my films, and that is what I value more than any awards.

I believe that cinema is not only an artistic industry, but there is also a political activity.

That's realism: a fact that if the audiences don't move out and watch good films at the theatre, people will stop making them.

I want Punjabi film industry to make it's way into the text books, so that when children read about this industry they should know how it reached to its glory.