Madhur Bhandarkar Quotes
I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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New York is my home.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.
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People who learn to windsurf, they're in it for life. It never gets boring. It's always different, amazing, exciting. It's such a wonderful feeling when you're ripping through the waves, feeling weightless.
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I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
