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“However, James and Aamir did not discuss their astounding box office grosses or formulas for success.Instead, they exchanged notes on the process of film-making; how ideas, even seemingly crazy ones that require developing a unique camera, as James did for Avatar, become a reality; how stories and not special effects are the heartbeat of movies.”
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“In Aditya Chopra’s old office, there used to hang a poster of DDLJ with the following inscription by Shah Rukh Khan: “More than half my career ago, you gave me a dream to cherish all my life. My kids will see it, my grandchildren will love it and I’m sure even in heaven they are playing our film – so my parents would have seen it too. Thanx for taking me to them and making me the star I’m today. Lots of love and come let’s make some more dreams together.”
― 100 Films to See before You Die
― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Director Steven Spielberg bought the only remaining Rosebud sled from Citizen Kane (1941) for $55,000 at auction at Sotheby’s. He called the sled ‘a symbolic emblem of quality in the film business’.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine”,”
― 100 Films to See before You Die
― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Javed Akhtar to remark, “One should never do too much good work in one year.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Citizen Kane is to cinema what James Joyce’s Ulysses is to literature.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Citizen Kane is widely considered the best film ever made.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone ‘look like a bulldog’, so he stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the audition. For actual filming, he wore a mouthpiece made by a dentist;”
― 100 Films to See before You Die
― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Citizen Kane still tops most lists as the best film ever made.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“The tagline for Alien said: In space no one can hear you scream. But the film had audiences screaming for decades after.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“I learned everything from Bruce Lee. – Jackie Chan”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“This is the only film in which Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar acted together.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Anhedonia’, which means the clinical inability to experience happiness.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Aamir discussed the emotional journey he embarks on with each film.”
― First Day First Show
― First Day First Show
“Lee says: “A good fight should be like a small play but played seriously,”
― 100 Films to See before You Die
― 100 Films to See before You Die
“The Godfather is no longer a film, it is a myth.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“I will make him an offer that he can’t refuse”, “It’s not personal Sonny, it’s strictly business”, “Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“To see it is to become different.” I think so.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Borat is a film “so breathtakingly offensive, so suicidally discourteous that strictly speaking it shouldn’t be legal at all.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“A director's dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché's are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions.”
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“The producer of the film Nariman Irani passed away six months before the release and Chandra Barot had no money for the film’s promotions.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Cyrano de Bergerac is a lesson in living life large.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Most of what follows is true.’ William Goldman, who won an Oscar for the screenplay,”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Zindagi badi honi chaiye, lambi nahin. That’s the lesson Anand,”
― 100 Films to See before You Die
― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Mozart was taking ‘dictation from God’.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Breathless was one of the key films of the French New Wave – the original story was by François Truffaut and Claude”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“In death, Anand teaches us how to live.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Deewaar is also, with the exception of Sholay, the finest script that Salim-Javed created.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“still remains the only film in Oscar history to receive four female acting nominations – two for best actress and two for best supporting actress.”
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― 100 Films to See before You Die
“Giving it those ones’ is Delhi School of Architecture slang for ‘faking it big time’.”
― 100 Films to See before You Die
― 100 Films to See before You Die
