What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.
It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.
I'm a total cinephile. I try to watch everything I can.
I had no patience for films. It was only after I met Shah Rukh that I learnt to enjoy his passion for cinema.
I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.
I love movies and always, always have.
I'm a freak for great movies. I love movies.
All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.
My first love will always be movies.
I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.
I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire.
People ask me, "Why do you love making films?" and I always say, "Because I love film." I hope that I can call myself a movie buff.
What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.
I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if it's worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.
Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.
I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies.
I guess the passion I have for cinema is as strong as the one that I have for music. And I've always tried to be a character in the film, not just a composer that throws his music to the film. That's the main element that connects me with directors.
I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.
If you love cinema as much as I do, and not many people do, and if you are focused and actually have something to offer, you will get somewhere with it.
