“And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.”
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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.
I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
