Salman Rushdie Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.

  Salman Rushdie

  Voice, Giving, Dumb

• I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and politics and music and film, and developing, too, a certain skill in manipulating and arranging these pitiful shards so that they glittered and caught the light. Fool's gold, or priceless nuggets mined from my singular childhood's rich bohemian seam? I leave it to others to decide.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Book, Light

  Salman Rushdie (2011). “The Moor's Last Sigh”, p.240, Random House

• I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

  Salman Rushdie

  Moving, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Cinema, Film

• I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Emotional, Thinking

  "Salman Rushdie Goes Hollywood". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. April 23, 2013.

• I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fans, Stories, Film

• In our time, we have become too interested in the artist and his or her character and experience as a way of understanding art. In my view, you should be able to read a book or see a film without knowing a single thing about conditions or circumstances or character of the artist, and experience the work to the full without such information. Sometimes I feel - speaking for myself - that people know much too much about me, and I wish people knew less and could just read these books and respond to them purely as words on a page.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Book, Character

  Source: pen.org

• When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

  Salman Rushdie

  Independent, Issues, Film

• As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, People, Kind

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  Salman Rushdie

  Two, Chinese, Literature

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