"It is hard directing. The hours are terrible and you have to sort of suspend your life when you're in production. So, being a mother is very hard. I can absolutely see why there are so few women directing, because it's physically a very demanding thing to do. Fathers can only do it because they have wives at home doing all the other stuff. I can only do it because I have a husband that helps with the kids at home"

--

Source : "It's A Wonderful Afterlife - Gurinder Chadha interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

Gurinder Chadha

#Mother Quotes #Husband Quotes #Father Quotes

“Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.”

Source : 2004 Explaining his identity-his father was a Berber from the Kabylie region of Algeria and Zidane grew up in the Marseille suburb of La Castellane. In the Observer, 4 Apr.
“The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians.”
“Son, it ain't the water cooler that's striking you out.”
“The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.”
“I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often.”
“If all women on earth woke up tomorrow feeling truly positive and powerful in their own bodies, the economies of the globe would collapse overnight.”

Source : Laurie Penny (2011). “Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism”, p.9, John Hunt Publishing
“This is a musical, ma'am. If there's no gay, there's a problem.”
“Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.”

You may also like:

Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Actor
Archie Panjabi
Actress
Eleanor Tomlinson
Actress
Martin Henderson
Actor
Meera Syal
Comedian
Mira Nair
Film director
Naveen Andrews
Actor
Parminder Nagra
Film actress
Georgia Groome
Actress