Beeban Kidron Quotes

I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing questions.

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I'm not that interested in entertainment.

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

My films, I've tried to put a message into them. It's not about the gore; it's not about the horror element that are in them. It's more about the message, for me. That's what it is, and I'm using this platform to be able to show my feelings of what I think.

I think that the world is very complex. I think that the movie is a good way to ask questions. To give answers, you would write a lot of books.

I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.

The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.

I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you think about it?'

I'm happy that the kind of films I'm doing right now is reaching a wider audience, and I'm looking forward to direct Hindi films as well.

Showing 'Get Out' to a room full of strangers and having them react lets them be introspective and see the way certain images affect other people.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

One of the great values of the theater is a communal search for truth; I believe that sincerely.

I think cinema is a reflection of the society and whatever is being shown is because of the climate we're living in. It is relevant, topical, and surely somewhere it's impacting people who can relate to these circumstances.

If you look at most mainstream filmmaking, to be honest, some of these films aren't even asking questions anymore at all.

Films like 'Satyamev Jayate' help in getting some distributors and financiers for films like 'Gali Guleiyan' which give me a lot of satisfaction.

Cinema is not just a medium of entertainment. Yes, it should entertain, but cinema is made to convey a message, to say something.

Films are never meant as solutions; they just provide entertainment value.

Cinema is a reflection of society and, in most cases, has the ability to be a mirror and not just show the problems but also give solutions and help them reach a large number of people through faces and voices that matter.

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.