Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.
“Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.”
— Gus Van Sant · Cinema
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Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.
“Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.”
— Gus Van Sant · Cinema
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“Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.”
“I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it.”
“Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.”
“In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.”
“One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.”
“Yeah, I try to be really calm.”
“Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. That does not require one to divorce the past but to respect and process both the present and the future.”
“Sometimes, I find these OTT platforms very scary that what if due to them cinema halls get shut forever. The whole culture where everyone gets together, plans an outing, eats together and watches a film together.”
“I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.”
“My son Ishaan's passion for movies and his exposure to world cinema infuses me with optimism.”
“I am a film director, and I work with a visual language, with a visual medium. And I try to make virtue of the use of this visual medium. And I try to make sure what I do speaks the language of cinema.”
“Generally, we tend to believe that royalty is only for mainstream Hindi commercial cinema music and maybe some popular ghazal singer or pop singer but we never think that classical music is played at so many places.”