Satyajit Ray Quotes
Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.
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I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'
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Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved.
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My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.
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Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man.
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Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
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Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.
