I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process.
Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie.
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.
If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.
I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.
Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema .
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
In cinema, the leading player is the director.
Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.
Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.
From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.