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The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind.

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

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.

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

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.

If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

Music is music whether it is for the stage, rostrum or cinema .

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

I became producer so that I could work with persons like him and to rock the world of Hong Kong Cinema a bit.

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'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.

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.