R. Madhavan Quotes
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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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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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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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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
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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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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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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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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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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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I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film structure. I just think it's easier to think in pictures.
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With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
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'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'
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Tone is an interesting question because part of the inspiration of looking to song is that Geisel himself - when you think about his animated version of The Grinch - embraced the idea of using songs in unconventional ways, as part of conveying a narrative. The use of music, in this film, is very unconventional, which I love.
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The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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Mr. President I am here to tell you we are not buying what you are selling in 2012.
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I do only one film at a time.
