"It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are; you have to be able to express the big idea of a film in a sentence or two."

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Source : Source: www.theguardian.com

Gurinder Chadha

#Character Quotes #Film Quotes

“The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.”

Source : Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.”
“I read all the books on Fairfax in the British Library, did a lot of horse riding and studied military tactics of the time, finding out that he actually laid his rose garden out in strategic formations! But Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting. In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Who controls the past now controls the future Who controls the present now controls the past Who controls the past now controls the future Who controls the present now?”

Source : "Song: Testify (Album:The Battle of Los Angeles)". 2000.
“I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.”
“The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the Orient with its cyclical time and Christianity with its linear history. And what is modem about the modem mind, one may ask, if Hegel, Comte, or Marx, in order to create an image of history that will support their ideological imperialism, still use the same techniques for distorting the reality of history as their Sumerian predecessors?”
“I know that Madonna is not a first-time filmmaker, but I have worked with a lot of first time filmmakers and I have worked with a lot of inexperienced film directors so that never has particularly worried me - I find it quite exciting - but I have never worked with a director who has had so little experience of directing who was so prepared.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Why is it that everything I eat when Iâ€™m with you is so delicious?â€™ I laughed. â€˜Could it be that youâ€™re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?”

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