Film Narratives Quotes

'The Help' sheds light on a certain truth in America, but the tragedy is if we don't get a chance to contrast it with other points of views. 'The Butler' does that, 'Red Tails' does that and that's what '96 Minutes' does.

The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous party.

It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.

Whether a film is breaking into song and dance or if it's something like 'Whiplash,' I find it incredibly rewarding, and I'm drawn to those stories with a musical component.

Though 'Shahid' was the only true story, what happened in 'Trapped' can happen to anyone. And I am sure there are people like Newton, and there are boys who are naive, sweet, and rowdy, like my part in 'Bareilly'... The humanness is something I loved.

There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

In film, in general, you have just so many cliche themes or stories that are told over and over again.