100 Films To See Before You Die Quotes

“In Aditya Chopra’s old office, there used to hang a poster of DDLJ with the following inscription by Shah Rukh Khan: “More than half my career ago, you gave me a dream to cherish all my life. My kids will see it, my grandchildren will love it and I’m sure even in heaven they are playing our film – so my parents would have seen it too. Thanx for taking me to them and making me the star I’m today. Lots of love and come let’s make some more dreams together.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“Director Steven Spielberg bought the only remaining Rosebud sled from Citizen Kane (1941) for $55,000 at auction at Sotheby’s. He called the sled ‘a symbolic emblem of quality in the film business’.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone ‘look like a bulldog’, so he stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the audition. For actual filming, he wore a mouthpiece made by a dentist;”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“I learned everything from Bruce Lee. – Jackie Chan”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“Javed Akhtar to remark, “One should never do too much good work in one year.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“Citizen Kane is to cinema what James Joyce’s Ulysses is to literature.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“Citizen Kane is widely considered the best film ever made.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine”,”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“Anhedonia’, which means the clinical inability to experience happiness.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“This is the only film in which Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar acted together.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“The tagline for Alien said: In space no one can hear you scream. But the film had audiences screaming for decades after.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“Citizen Kane still tops most lists as the best film ever made.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“Giving it those ones’ is Delhi School of Architecture slang for ‘faking it big time’.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones was path-breaking in many ways.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“I will make him an offer that he can’t refuse”, “It’s not personal Sonny, it’s strictly business”, “Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“The Godfather is no longer a film, it is a myth.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“Lee says: “A good fight should be like a small play but played seriously,”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“For the first time I saw that political resistance can be very sexy. – Director Fatih Akin at the Cannes International Film Festival, 2007”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“The producer of the film Nariman Irani passed away six months before the release and Chandra Barot had no money for the film’s promotions.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“DDLJ is one of the few films that credits a person (Kirron Kher) for the ‘title idea’. The title is part of the lyrics of a song from the film Chor Machaye Shor (1970).”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“Eighty per cent of Deewaar was shot at night. Amitabh Bachchan shot for Deewaar at night and during the day for Sholay.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“Deewaar is also, with the exception of Sholay, the finest script that Salim-Javed created.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“This is a sad, sweet story that has inspired many versions in films through the years (including Kunal Kohli’s Mujhse Dosti Karoge!).”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“Cyrano de Bergerac is a lesson in living life large.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“I would rather be a ghost drifting by your side as a condemned soul than enter heaven without you.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“I made this film for the Brazilian middle class. It was an opportunity for me to find out more about my country. We abandoned this part of society and now we are reaping the consequences. – Director Fernando Meirelles”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“It’s all about murder, money and power. The motto is – Kill: Be Respected.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s cinema brims with wit, charm and an inherent decency.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“Children of Heaven was the first film from Iran to be nominated for an Oscar.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die

“poker hand which includes a king, queen and jack, all three face cards that appear to be ‘looking at you’.”
― Anupama Chopra, 100 Films to See before You Die