Patricia Rozema Quotes

• I told myself over and over again, do it for its images, for the pleasure you get out of it. Do it for your friends If you get more, that's a bonus.

  Patricia Rozema

  Bonus, Pleasure, Ifs

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• I believe in tension and release, in that if you stay in the the same tone and mode and intensity for too long, it actually becomes monotonous. When you change up your pace or your humour level, then the release is welcome... I believe that's my biggest job: tone control, and maintaining enough unity so that it all feels like one movie and all the scenes belong together, and yet diversity so that emotional and narrative interest is maintained.

  Patricia Rozema

  Jobs, Believe, Emotional

  "Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Patricia Rozema". "Mansfield Park" DVD, 2000.

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• Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work. For instance, to me, Mansfield Park is a story about servitude and slavery. Other people may have a problem with that, but that's how I read the book and so that's how I shot the movie.

  Patricia Rozema

  Religious, Book, People

  "Weird Sex & Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena". Book by Katherine Monk, 2001.

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• I wanted [Martin] to be a really decent human being because I didn't want to depict the cliché that a woman becomes a lesbian because her husband is terrible to her.

  Patricia Rozema

  Husband, Want, Terrible

  "When Night Is Falling". Drama, Romance, 1995.

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• Isn't life the strangest thing you've ever seen?

  Patricia Rozema

  "I've Heard the Mermaids Singing". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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