Films Quotes
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My friends are always honest with me about films. But I really wanted to talk to regular people and kind of have a forum to interact with them; not just about films, but about everything.
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I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.
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If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.
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I also loved that there in Into the Forest was a beautiful balance to it, where they were strong and survivors and doing things in the film that we normally only see men do, but they were still human and vulnerable, and they still broke and had moments of weakness. That's something that we don't often get to see in these films, either.
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I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
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A film like 'Kai Po Che!', 'Queen', 'Behen Hogi Teri' and 'Bareilly Ki Barfi' are not really independent films.
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I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.
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It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them.
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I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
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Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
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They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.
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One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black – and – white films.
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I feel glamour has a legit place on the ramp and in the fashion world. In films, glamour has to service the story.
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It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.
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When I first started making films 30 years ago, people would comment that I was a woman. But strangely, when I was in television, no one ever mentioned that I was a woman. Maybe it was because television and film were different. There were more women working in television than men. There was no split in terms of work - everyone was considered equal.
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I never wanted to be anything special. I just wanted to make films.
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Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.
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The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
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For me, my realism has stood me over 15 years, so the kind of films that I have done has garnered enough respect for me to be able to survive the industry.
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I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
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I'm proud to have been in some of the films that continue to be a special part of people's lives.
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All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.
