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I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why I was doing an art movie, and I would just tell them that, 'You know, what's the big deal, it's a movie.' I'm so glad that's a thing of the past.

— Madhuri Dixit

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✓Similar Perspectives

It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.

— Richard Hell

I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly.

— Ridley Scott

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

— Jonathan Demme

It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.

— Amy Ryan

The first movie I ever cried at was when I was 10 years old and saw 'The Notebook' in theaters. I was like, 'Whoa, so weird. Crying at a movie? I'm not supposed to do that. So weird.' I didn't know that art could make you do that.

— Ansel Elgort

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

— Sydney Pollack

✗Opposing Perspectives

I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual.

— Lee Daniels

When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.

— Richard Roundtree

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

— David Mamet

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

— Mike Figgis