A Quote by Mani Ratnam

Westerners are open to Indian films.

Mani Ratnam

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Mani Ratnam
Indian - Director
Born: June 2, 1956

I don't compare myself with Freida Pinto. She has come a long way. She does only films in the West. I am open to do both - Indian films and films from the West.

Tena Desae

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

Mark Twain

Be proud that thou art an Indian, and proudly proclaim, "I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother." Say, "The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother."

Swami Vivekananda

I definitely am open to South Indian films. There is a lot of good work coming from these states and I would like to be a part in some of them.

Richa Chadha

In the history of Indian cinema I am the only South Indian director who has survived for 12 years and 25 films in Bollywood.

Priyadarshan

There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.

Kat Graham

'Newton' is a very Indian film. I think, after a long time, people will see an Indian film in its true form. As in the story, the character, it is set in the heartland of India, but it's purely like how there was a time when Hrishikesh Mukherjee used to make sweet Indian films.

Rajkummar Rao

Indian filmmakers sometimes twist the details and the mood of the film to give it the Indian masala flavor. This tod-marod in films is a rather big impediment.

Rohini Hattangadi

The “Vasco da Gama's era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.

Carlo M. Cipolla

I'm always open to acting in Tamil films. In fact, I'm open to films from the south.

Riya Sen

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.

Samuel P. Huntington

When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.

James Wan

A lot of people in India are not that into non-Indian films or Western films.

Lillete Dubey

If you remain open to great directors who look like you, who know what they're doing and are making impactful films that are destroying these 'blockbuster films,' you can do okay, and everybody can get more of a piece of the pie. But you've got to be open and brave.

Omari Hardwick

Films on Indian epics need to be made and when the response to it is good, it gives you the impetus to make more such films.

Rockline Venkatesh

When you are a pan-Indian actress, you are doing films in different languages and invariably, you end up not signing films in one language or the other for a brief period.

Amyra Dastur

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