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Quotes by Director
"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."
207
"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."
188
"Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?"
180
"Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me."
178
"I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me."
173
"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."
171
"I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films."
168
"If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way."
162
"Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them."
158
"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
157
"When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit."
155
"Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make."
154
"The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them."
154
"I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology."
152
"I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself."
148
"Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined."
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143
"Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it."
143
"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed."
142
"When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour."
142
"I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film."
139
"I've heard about brothers making films, but I've never heard about whole families making films like this. We didn't intend to do it; it wasn't something that we planned - it just gradually happened."
137
"The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along."
133
"Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with."
133
"From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it."
129
"It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body."
127
"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."
124
"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."
123
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