Film Quotes
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Generally I just pick music that I like. That's the part I really enjoy: When I get permission for the songs I want and put them into the scenes. It's always hard when you're doing a low-budget film, so it's great when you can get all the music you want to get.
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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 was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.
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Film has to describe and show.
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Music is like the other person in this film and it's really important for Orlando's character. It leads him on his journey and is with him on his road trip.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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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 make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.
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Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
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Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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When I heard the script of 'Loukyam,' I was laughing, as it was such a laugh riot. So all this made me sign the film.
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I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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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.
