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I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often wonder: If Buddha had all the elements that are given to a director - if he had music, if he had visuals, if he had a video camera - would we get Buddhism better?

— Shekhar Kapur

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.

— Bruno Dumont

I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.

— Mira Nair

To me, film is a religion. I don't expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication.

— Kevin Brownlow

As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically.

— Duncan Jones

I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.

— Tony Jaa

I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.

— Ian Mckellen

I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

— Ira Sachs

I would love to produce a film.

— Judi Shekoni

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

— Catherine Deneuve

✗Opposing Perspectives

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

— Rani Mukerji