- Prize
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- 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