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"Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either."

"Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it."

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."

"The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty."

"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."

"We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that."
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"Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of course economically it was cheaper to make films in India."


"A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish."


"We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie."


"It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband."


"Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there."


"This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one."


"Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus."


"The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge."


"It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else."


"I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one has brought a certain name and contribution to cinema."
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