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"For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation."
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"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."
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"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."
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"I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this."
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"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."
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"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."
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"Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth."
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"I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it."
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"Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it."
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"Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite."
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"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."
Culture
"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."
Language
"The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge."
People
"Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there."
Love
"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."
Language
"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."
Cinema
"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."
Comedy
"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."
Wife
"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."
Judgment
"It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband."
Father
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