19 Quotes by Sally Potter

We've always wanted Josh, but he had something else going on that weekend.

Many musicals are about putting on a show and, when that happens, you know the filmmakers are really talking about their own process of bringing ideas to the screen. The story is a vehicle for looking at other things,

I was struck by the large number of men who came up afterwards to grill me on what I knew about Islam. But they were very respectful and serious.

When goods are down, and you're selling used, you have to price a lot cheaper,

This scene is really the heart of the whole story.

We've had people from Texas, northern Wisconsin, Toledo, Cleveland. We've had lots of people from Ann Arbor and Detroit.

The store had run its course and you've got a world where new goods are incredibly cheap now. The lease was up the middle of August and I looked around and said we've had a great run. We're done. It's sad but yet it's a completion of a very fun era.

It wasn't my intention to make any grandiose political statements here,

I am not interested in making didactic polemical statements. That is not the way I want to make films. There is a place for polemics, but I don't think that it is in fictional cinema. Fictional cinema works subtly and deeply.