100 Quotes by Mani Ratnam
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It is usually the setting that decides whether a movie can be made in two languages. If the subject is rooted up North, then I make it in Hindi. But if the subject is common, then I am open to making the movie in multiple languages.
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Certain subjects are best done with stars. Certain subjects like 'Alai Payuthe' are done with non-stars. In such films, stars are a burden.
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Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something which is elusive all the time.
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Filmmaking is not a one man show. It is not like I'm thinking something and they are expressing it. I try to pull the actor in and together we try to get the expression. It is not my thinking alone, it is our thinking. The actor also becomes a part of the thought process.
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Once the film is released, once my job is over, I can't see the film again.
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The fact that technology has developed so much gives you the liberty to tell the stories, which were difficult to say earlier. It allows you to tell it more convincingly, more elaborately and more beautifully.
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Every film you see at a festival teaches you something.
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I liked Guru Dutt, the way he used songs and the way he shot songs. He was a class apart.
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Even in a conservative society like Chennai, youngsters don't feel bound by conventions anymore.
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