Film Quotes
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I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.
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I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is different because we know the characters are real people, so they always stay flawed for us somehow. But animated films touch us in a very clear, uncomplicated place. They have that ability. And an animated character can make an expression in a way humans can't do.
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It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."
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I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.
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I have learnt a lot about theatre, and I would like to know the same about film.
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We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.
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Seeing what the film becomes, out of your hands - you never know, you know? I'm always rather anxious. It's not like in theater when you are more in control. You're more - not a puppet, but you don't control it. You don't own it.
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I'm happy to work. I know things have changed recently, but I tend to prefer film. I don't know what it is.
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Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.
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You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
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I just hope that my films will survive me.
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The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
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People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it's to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don't hear the word 'no' enough.
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I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.
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Film still looks way better than digital.
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While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.
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I discover what my film is by embarking on the journey of making it.
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I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.
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The fact that Sanjay Leela Bhansali wanted me to be part of his film was a high point in my life.
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.
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Satra Ko Shaadi Hai is a very sweet film. It was the first film that I shot. I play a shy small town boy in it, which is an absolute contrast to what I played in Sanam Teri Kasam.
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I'm just thinking of 2001, which I think is the most expensive independent film ever made - which is great, someday I hope I will do one. But I know the parameters when I got onto this project - I have to take care of everyone, make sure that they are all on board, and this process interests me.
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You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.
