Film Quotes
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I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
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There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that..." I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.
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I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.
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I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
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The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
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'Saawariya' was my debut film. It will always be the most special film.
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The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.
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Sadly, this picture [ Joy] does not go from strength to strength. It sinks into a morass of tedious obstacles to this woman's success. Joy the person may be able to surmount all barriers, but the film with her name on it is not so fortunate.
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But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.
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I had wanted to make this film Suffragette for over a decade. There has never been a cinematic rendition of this story. I had not been taught any of the history of the movement at school, and the version I had gleaned had been the Mary Poppins story of women in large hats, petitioning. There was another version.
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
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There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.
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Film is like a drug. It is a shelter when you cannot deal with reality.
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When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.
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A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
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I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
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I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.
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I'm very interested in film, but any more involvement would happen organically. I'm not really seeking anything out, just looking at projects that come up that interest me.
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
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I have a good friend who's a very good printer. And he does a certain amount of printing for me. I do all the developing. If somebody's going to goof my film, I'd better do it. I don't want to get that mad at anybody else.
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I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
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I've always loved that film 'The Three Caballeros', and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.
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My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.
