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'd love to do more independent films.
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At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.
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German Flutes of a superior Quality to be sold at this Printing Office.
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.
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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.
