Aparna Sen Quotes

Aparna Sen

Profession : Director

Birth : October 25, 1945

As it happens, I live in Kolkata; my husband Kalyan lives in New Jersey in USA; our elder daughter lives in Cincinnati - also in USA; my younger daughter lives in Mumbai; my sisters live in Delhi.

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The fact of the matter is that all true artistes are androgynous by nature, the yin and yang perfectly balanced.

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My personal fave is 'The Japanese Wife', because I think I achieved a lot of what I wanted to do. I wanted that Japanese minimalism in the film, which I managed to get somewhat.

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I feel scenes of sexual intimacy are ruined if the director is embarrassed.

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It is time that the female gaze made its presence felt both in cinema and in a world that's been driven by intolerance, greed, hate and lust. We need to make gentler, more inclusive films where multiple voices may be heard.

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All human beings are lonely at the core. We come alone, we go alone.

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Unless we citizens speak out, unless we are vigilant, democracy cannot fully function.

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Someone should tell the fundamentalists that even Advaita philosophy in Hinduism talks of oneness in all existence.

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Every single person is political. I am a Left-liberal and my politics is issue-based.

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We have inherited both Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray. We love them and we respect them and we adore them, so we also have the right to critique them.

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It's so important for me to keep a good house. I take a lot of pleasure in cooking and I think there is a lot in common between cooking and film-making. You put all these ingredients together to make something wholesome. Except the rewards in cooking come a little sooner.

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A lot of us were worried that the secular fabric of the country was under threat and it was time that citizens begin to speak out. Hence we called ourselves Citizen Speak India.

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At the drop of a hat, people have begun to take offence. You can't write, paint, make films without worrying about some faction or other whose 'sentiments' will be hurt!

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I grew up in a film lovers' family and I have been watching the best of world cinema from age six.

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I let the images crowd my mind before I start writing a script.

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The very act of voting is a political act.

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This politics is bound to be reflected in the work of a serious filmmaker. When I make a film, I try to tell a human story to the best of my ability. I do not set out either to preach messages or purely to entertain.

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We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

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Without the huge budgets, mainstream Bengali cinema falls flat on its face.

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I certainly am a feminist but, in my cinema, I don't talk about any 'isms'. I deal only with individuals; even if an 'ism' surfaces, it is not underlined.

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