"When I was doing the screenplay, people who read the book Call Me by Your Name would go, "Oh god, what are you going to do about the peach scene?" I'd say, "I don't know, but I'll do something." And finally I figured out that there was a way of doing it without being totally graphic. You can do it in a way where the audience gets it and accepts it."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

James Ivory

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Scene Quotes

“Tom Brady is good, real good...but he plays in same league as I do.”
“I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.”
“Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.”
“I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It's so natural for a woman to open up her mirror and apply lipstick”
“Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.”
“He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Mar 23, 2012
“I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other.”
“I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.”

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