Cinematic Connections Quotes

I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection.

You get to be analytical about the process and now I can watch the movie and see all the different connection things and see all the things that are underneath the surface.

I've made some really good friends from movies, but a lot of the time it's a very isolated experience that lives and dies during the production.

The Rotterdam Film Festival really makes you feel like part of a film family.

It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

On certain movies, you make friends that end up being your friends for the rest of your life. Those are the ones that are the most special.

Good cinema has no regional or linguistic boundaries.

Movies don't have borders.

A lot of the films I've done have links to other movies that I've directed in the past.

The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same.

I love those moments in any movie or film where there's a reference to a bigger picture, especially in Marvel where everything is connected.

There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how relevant one genre is to another. I think that westerns and samurai films and superhero films have a lot in common. It's just that the scale of the visuals in tentpole films can sometimes overwhelm the drama.

Indian cinema is no more limited to audiences in India. We have viewers all around the world, and hence, understanding the global perspective is a must. Cinema Beyond Boundaries would get the viewers and the filmmakers together and would help us in serving them with good quality cinema.

There is some pleasure in doing a movie and problem solving on a specific movie and getting a movie made, but once they are done, we don't look at them again, much less relate one to another.

When directors like Joe Russo, who understand story from a very global perspective, start working more and more with Chinese filmmakers, you'll start seeing Chinese films that connect with audiences all over Asia, Europe, and South America - maybe even North America.