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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."
198
"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."
161
"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."
158
"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?"
156
"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."
151
"I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me."
149
"I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films."
142
"If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way."
140
"Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make."
135
"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."
135
"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."
133
"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."
129
"I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology."
127
"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
127
"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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124
"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."
122
"When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour."
121
"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed."
120
"And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever."
119
"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."
117
"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."
116
"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."
116
"Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them."
116
"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."
109
"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."
107
"It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body."
107
"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."
107
"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."
107
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