Film Quotes

There are so many self-references - it's always me in the songs talking about being in the song, like a character in a film that knows he's a character in a film.

The synthesis of art and technology has now been going on for so long. You can watch a film with incredible CGI where King Kong kills a thing and it doesn't even move you because you take everything for granted.

I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film - after that, they can go away and say that was great, and go back to their problems. I don't want to change the world with our music. There are no hidden messages in our songs, except for some of Brian's.

I have visions of actually having a film made of my life story, one day, which I would have a key part in. I might not play the lead myself. My dears, the things I've done in my lifetime... it'll be totally triple-X-rated, I'll tell you!

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

Songs should follow the state of mind of the actor on screen. It can be grammatically perfect, you know, with all those embellishments that the ustads are good at, only if you're singing for a film on, say, the life of Tansen.

It is my livelihood. But its responsibility lies with the film makers who, after 50 years of sound film, have not been able to give cinema an identity of its own.

Jeetendra, Sridevi, what kind of film and what kind of music do you expect with these ingredients? The industry is full of shopkeepers who're out to make money - not art.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.