“Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.” WantDreamFilmGoalCommunityClassImpossibleTvsBabyGrewGrew UpLowsWesternEastProfessionCinemaAsianEnder Author:Archie Panjabi
“I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.” WantSoundBreatheCinemaPretentious Author:Giovanni Ribisi
“I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.” ThinkingWantShouldStoriesBeliefCinemaAgendasPreachingProvokingSoapbox Author:Jeremy Renner
“There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.” WantStillsViewsAudienceCinema Author:Michael Winterbottom