Of course, my children have my full support but they’ll have to work hard and prove themselves if they want to make a career in film industry.
People of Mumbai respect me a lot and they are well aware of my contributions towards the film industry.
Nothing much has changed after I joined the film industry. I follow the same diet and fitness routine that I used to during my modelling days.
The film industry is a tough place to survive.
I can’t pick one film industry over another because work is work. Actresses are targeted when say prefer one industry over another.
I have never accepted any random offers for the sake of being a regular face in the film industry.
The film industry has given me everything I have today.
From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people.
I have never been in a race where I would do anything to be here. That’s a lethal mindset with which girls enter the film industry.
Though the film industry is my primary area of work, television allows me to reach out to the audience quicker.
When I started out, at 19, I was told, by the media and the film industry to do a certain kind of films and work with certain kind of stars. Coming from a non-filmi background, I did not know how to go about it, as there were different people trying to push me in various directions.
There is a lot of musical pollution in the film industry.
I did some feature work, then tried TV. I was always very aware that the only power that you have is the power of options. If the film industry dries up, then you focus on the TV or the books. For me, it was always about what story do I want to tell next?
There is a certain amount of commerce in the film industry in as much as you have value, and for a moment, your value goes up, then it all disappears again.
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was – because you’re in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you’ve known them all of your life.
That period, doing ‘Angels in America’ in ’94 and then filming with ‘Basquiat’ in ’95, those were gateway years for me as an artist. Two gateways, one into the film industry and one into the world of theater, each formative to me in different, equally essential ways.
Actors in the film industry are usually wary of expressing their opinions on the issues of the day, politics especially.
It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80’s.
I wanted to make money very fast, and I was completely confused after college. I didn’t know what career options I had. And then I had this entry point in the film industry, and I thought, ‘If this is where the fast money is going to come from, let’s see how it goes.’
I am enjoying every day of being in the film industry and have no regrets at all.
There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great director, but because I was an outsider and I wanted that validation of being accepted in the film industry.
There is nothing wrong with commercial cinema if it is made well. In fact, if you ask me, the Hindi film industry has also produced some truly outstanding works over the years.
Hindi film industry has not proved to be a viable alternative for me, hence, I shifted my focus towards South, where I have created a market for myself.
I want to work in literature-based movies in Bengal as this is the specialty of the Bengali film industry.
I don’t feel that my marriage has anything to do with my career. It never hampers anyone’s career in the film industry.
Everyone in the film industry does a lot of drama to get the limelight.
In my 41 years of experience in our film industry I’ve noticed that people make a lot of promises in the evening which they promptly forget in the morning.
The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It’s almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!
Given that Chiru also comes from a family which is closely associated with the film industry, I know I will get more support from them to pursue my acting career. I won’t stop acting. As long as we live, we will continue to act in films.
After my 12th standard, I started preparing for the film industry. I’ve had no formal acting training.
There is no schedule in the film industry. It’s not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.
Los Angeles is much like Mumbai, the film industry rules the city over most other professions, so it feels like home.
I’ve grown up in the film industry and I’ve been watching them, analyzing them, laughing at them, totally understanding them and getting their point of view, and, at times, taking up for them. So I’m part of it and it’s part of me.
You know, with the film industry crews, there’s an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don’t really want to listen if it’s in a certain emotional tone or too strong.
Ek Tha Tiger’ was a great script, director and leading superstar of the film industry Salman Khan is part of it.
You need not give others a chance to exploit you always. We should know what kind of exploitation is taking place. I cannot create an incident to say that women have been exploited in Malayalam film industry.
After finishing my study in Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), I was mentally prepared for the struggle in the film industry.
I feel we have a music industry within the film industry.
The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It’s an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they’ll support you.
When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.
Milkha Singh should not forget that the people had forgotten him till the movie ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ was made. So, it is due to this film industry that you have again become popular.
People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.
Sportsmen do not need Bollywood or film industry; they do not need publicity: it could be the other way round.
I have plenty of memories from my stint in the Kannada film industry.
Of course, whether it’s for negative or positive reasons, I’ve always been in the news… I’ve been constantly discussed inside and outside the film industry. That means I matter, doesn’t it?
Having done movies in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi, I have been accepted both in North and down South. I don’t believe in divisions. I like to believe that I am working in the Indian film industry.
After I entered the film industry, I restricted my non-veg diet to fish and chicken. I can’t, however, remain without non-veg food even for a single day.
I can’t see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.
I want to become a serious politician like N T Rama Rao and Vinod Khanna who were from the film industry but joined politics and worked with utmost seriousness.
Look at films like ‘Raazi,’ ‘Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi’ and ‘Padmaavat’… women in our film industry have changed the whole scenario. They are no less than our male actors.
The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.
Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.
The world is small, and the film industry is even smaller. So, if someone does something wrong, you really can’t hide it, and if it’s good work, it also can’t remain hidden.
I have nothing against the film industry, but my mom asked me to do anything but act.
I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don’t mean this in a derogatory way. I’m always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I’m wondering if that’s even possible.
I’m not finding fault or blaming the industry, but the heroes have always dominated the film industry.
I wanted to get a formal training before entering the film industry, so I moved to Mumbai. I stayed there for two years, got training and gave two auditions.
I feel satisfied with my journey in the film industry.
Icons like Nagarjuna sir and Jagapati Babu sir have been so encouraging and shared such great energy, welcoming me into the Telugu film industry. It is motivating.
