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- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man: who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.
- Bracket
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.
- Paint
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin in the most extraordinary elevated context, if there can be such a thing, in that he was a genius, he was unique.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I very, very, very rarely lose my temper. I do get cross sometimes when encountering something that I feel is improper, that I feel is lacking in justice and equity, and this all sounds very pompous and over the top - but these are the things that really upset me: intolerance, prejudice etc. I suppose in more mundane matters, I'm impatient.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.
- Idol
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 4 ft. 2 in. and not exactly a matinee idol.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm directing a movie, nothing else matters.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there were times when, if circumstances had developed, I might have been tempted into politics. I am a fan of Tony Blair. I think Gordon Brown is a fine man, but I think he's headed for one hell of a bloody struggle.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When me and Sheila got married, all we had was an oval table, four chairs, a bed, and a painting by Matthew Smith.
- Prize
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really like the Oscars; it's a commercial promotional event. It helps immeasurably to sell films, but it's hardly the Nobel prize.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I'm regarded as an establishment figure, but I was crucified by the establishment for 'Oh! What a Lovely War', 'Gandhi' and 'Cry Freedom.'
- Essential
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The family is the focal point of our existence. And up until Jane and Lucy's death, there were always 16 of us together for Christmas.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout my life, I always remember that consideration of people who were less fortunate than we. We lived in an atmosphere of awareness, and we certainly did not live a life whereby we ignored, or felt that we could ignore, that which was in evidence around us.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family were liberal with a small 'l' but passionately doers. I wanted to be a doer.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father thought Gandhi was a great man. I suppose subconsciously, consciously even, I was aware that I wanted to please him and Ma, so I thought doing something like 'Gandhi' would be phenomenal.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a pyrotechnical director; I'm not good with all those innovative things. What I am interested in is how actors can touch the heads and hearts of an audience.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are things I want to say: They are very important to me, and, not being a writer, I do it through movies.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in an atmosphere where Mama brought 60 Basque refugee children to England during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
'E.T.' depended absolutely on the concept of cinema, and I think that Steven Spielberg, who I'm very fond of, is a genius.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Gandhi' was a well-made film but surely not my best. It had flaws, which I understand two-and-a-half decades after I directed it. I will never call it a propaganda film for the Indian Congress, but it could have been made better had I concentrated on certain minute details.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My main aim in 'Gandhi' was to project him as the vanguard of non-violence. Nowhere in the world has a movement of non-cooperation sans violence received so much support from masses as Gandhi's movement in India did. He was, to a great extent, responsible for freeing his nation from the British Raj.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know Pandit Ravi Shankar was very upset with me, as I did not use his compositions in 'Gandhi.' I thought that the London Philharmonic Orchestra would prove more effective than his music. It was one of my biggest miscalculations.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ben Kingsley was my ideal choice for Gandhi, and he really lived up to the expectations of an international audience. I did not find any Indian actor worthy to perform the role of Gandhi in the early Eighties, though there were brilliant performers like Naseeruddin Shah in India.
- Remembered
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be remembered as a storyteller.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to make films about people who changed the lives of others and asserted human dignity.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a great director or an auteur; I'm an ensemble director. I do think I can get wonderful performances out of actors.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were able to write, I probably would. But movies have given me a part of my life where I can express feelings and bring convictions to an audience as if I could write. So I made 'Gandhi' about human relations, prejudice and the empire. In 'Cry Freedom' I expressed my horror and disgust about apartheid.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
What actually happened with 'Miracle' was that someone saw me in 'Jurassic Park' and said, 'We want someone with a white beard - how about him?' I've got a round face, white hair, a white beard. I can wear half-moon glasses and waddle a little, cope with a cane, raise my hat.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.
- Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer fact to fiction.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
- Destroyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.
- Nov 07, 2020
Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a passionate trade unionist.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020