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.
Madhur Bhandarkar
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The film industry is large enough and has many successful icons that have taken Indian cinema to sho... AMITABH BACHCHAN Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us... AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Ma... ANURAG KASHYAP Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved movie... ANURAG KASHYAP I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know. ROLAND JOFFE It is important that alongside the blockbusters there are stories that can inspire and audiences can... JUSTIN CHADWICK My cinema -- the '50s, '60s -- is different from the cinema today so I thought that it would not be ... GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA There are more Latino movies, made by Latino filmmakers and more people interested in Latino cinema. ETHAN VAN THILLO Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe. ABBAS KIAROSTAMI It's a great opportunity to be together apart from celebrating Indian cinema. AMITABH BACHCHAN There is nothing has brought them to the world like cinema has, ... I'm grateful to the United State... ROBERTO BENIGNI Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports. ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. JEAN-LUC GODARD Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it. SHAHRUKH KHAN Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgr... BRUNO DUMONT The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires. ANDRĂ© BAZIN The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike pain... JEAN-LUC GODARD Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cine... CRISPIN GLOVER Cinema dominated the Fife coalfield towns. We lived in Lochgelly, but my mum was caught up in Hollyw... KENNETH CRANHAM Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema! DEREK JARMAN Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it. SHAH RUKH KHAN What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is... JOHN BERGER Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and m... AMITABH BACHCHAN I'm confident that this festival will help redefine our film industry and put us on the map of world... MORSHED KHAN Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of Fr... JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The di... DAVID LYNCH I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on ... ANN MACBETH Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Is the cinema more important than life? FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies cre... BRIAN COX I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our ... LAVRENTI LOPES For Greek cinema, this is a very high-budget film. Hollywood producers, as they have done throughout... NEOVI KARAKATSANIS Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out MARTIN SCORSESE I think, for an actor, the whole world is a place of work because if you focus on characters and on ... EDGAR RAMIREZ Cinema has become a global economy, totally international. LASSE HALLSTROM In cinema, the leading player is the director. BEN KINGSLEY When we saw the subject matter we decided to work together with the cinema committee and do some of ... ZACHARY JEREMIAH We must have song and dance in our lives; we've had it ever since the inception of cinema in Ind... AMITABH BACHCHAN Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Sometimes, how others look at it must not be how you should see it! Sometimes, how it means to other... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas... JEAN-LUC GODARD In Mexico, there are good filmmakers, but they didn't always have the opportunity to show their ... ADRIANA BARRAZA The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more ac... AMITABH BACHCHAN Dibakar and Shekhar have the vision that we would associate with European cinema. They leave their a... SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT As advertisers become more savvy about the in-theatre marketing environment and new digital projecti... ROBERT MARTIN I am very much in favour of video because the quality of production of video is now so good. It is a... ANN MACBETH But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot prote... WIM WENDERS We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot ... JOHN LASSETER Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticat... IRA SACHS The definition of political cinema is one I don't agree with, because every film, every show, is... GIAN MARIA VOLONTE are much more artistic and vibrant now than the cinema. JEFFREY SCONCE The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN Our cinema has evolved in last 60 years because we have made people happy through our films. The mai... ANUPAM KHER I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art his... GEORGE HICKENLOOPER Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a... STANLEY DONEN The need of the hour is to promote good cinema and for this it needs to be incorporated in the acade... ADOOR GOPALAKRISHNAN The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty. MARIE TRINTIGNANT Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio. JEANINE BASINGER The beauty of cinema is it's something that can be made locally and consumed the world over, DOCTOR WHO Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema. JAMES BROUGHTON The small multiplexes have created a market for different kinds of cinema and the new generation fil... TARAN ADARSH Everything about 'UY' is new and fresh, and we are extremely happy at the response from the ... AKKINENI NAGARJUNA I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent ci... MANISH DAYAL The best cinema is about ethics. ALEXANDER PAYNE Shyam Benegal has found a lovely voice in this film. We've all seen the kind of cinema he's ... BOMAN IRANI It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art ... KEANU REEVES Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks pa... ANGELA CARTER Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. MARTIN SCORSESE I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in ... JEREMY THOMAS I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal. OM PURI Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing y... JACKIE CHAN Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing y... JACKIE CHAN Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS The cinema, like the detective story, enables us to experience without danger to ourselves all the e... CARL GUSTAV JUNG Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about... VINCENT CASSEL Discovery is committed to delivering knowledge-filled content to viewers. Search tools like TV Guide... DON BAER She would use this money on everyday items like going to the cinema, magazines, shopping expeditions... PAUL BURRELL The festival is going to have its own doses of glamour. European cinema is starting to get glamour. MIKEL OLACIREGUI We are in talks and I'm very confident that we will reach an agreement with KDG. It will help us to ... BERNARD DE ROOS In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater ... BRIAN COX I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art. ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. F... FREIDA PINTO Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see ... MARTIN SCORSESE The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another wo... DAVID LYNCH I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while,... JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cin... BEN GAZZARA Life is bigger than cinema. Cinema is just a part of life, so I never take success or failure seriou... PAWAN KALYAN It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility ... OM PURI One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous... ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA Cinema is incredibly concise. YANN MARTEL I really felt that Indian audiences would be ready for a feature like this one. There are now many I... ARJUN SABLOK Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID Particularly with live TV, I have a really good time reacting in the moment to things that are going... TOM BERGERON You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER
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