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" I tell stories about people audiences might think they have nothing in common with, then they emotionally connect with them and find they're not different at all. "
Gurinder Chadha
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" I use humour a lot because humour is a great equaliser. Everyone laughs at the same things if you set them up properly, and that makes everybody equal. At the end of the day, I see my job as being there to entertain as well as inform and provoke. "
Gurinder Chadha
Great
End Of The Day
Job
" Constantly, I've been asked to make a sequel to 'Beckham.' However, I thought a West End show was the proper way to go. Once we made the show, I wanted to make sure that I embraced the West End genre rather than just put the film on stage. "
Gurinder Chadha
Go
Way
Thought
" Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down. "
Gurinder Chadha
Writing
World
People
" If I'm in a gathering of filmmakers, I'm first and foremost a British Indian; if I'm in a gathering of British Indians, I'm a woman director. There are so many sides to who I am that I change all the time. "
Gurinder Chadha
Change
Woman
I Am
" I saw 'Billy Elliot' again, and what I loved about it was the way it had become a social document, a reminder of what happened with the mining communities in the '80s. And I thought, 'Everyone keeps wanting me to make a sequel to 'Beckham,' but maybe a musical remake is the answer, embracing all this theatricality.' "
Gurinder Chadha
Everyone
Again
Me
" For British cinema to survive, you really need a British film culture, and it's got to start down there, with young kids watching films in the cinema - so they can be transported to a different world. "
Gurinder Chadha
Need
Cinema
Start
" DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my children not to have. "
Gurinder Chadha
Hate
Would
Place
" Australians have a fantastic sense of humour and incredible taste. I was there for 'Bend It Like Beckham,' and I had a great time. Aussies loved it, and I think 'Bride & Prejudice' is going to do well, too, because it's all about having a good time. "
Gurinder Chadha
Time
Great
Good
" One of the head guys at Disney categorically said to me, 'We don't want to make children's films any more. We want to make films that are going to appeal to all quadrants.' Hence you have films like 'Shrek' and all the Pixar stuff, which is designed to suit everybody. "
Gurinder Chadha
Children
Said
Want
" I was a good Indian girl, but naughty in that I would often sneak out of the back door and into the garden and go off with my friends when I should have been at home cooking or cleaning. "
Gurinder Chadha
Good
Cooking
Door
" If you tell me I can't do something, that's the worst thing to tell me. And that's what I tell girls, and what Beckham's about: you can do it, you can do it better, and you can do it in the way you want. "
Gurinder Chadha
Better
Me
You Can Do It
" There are very few people who are Asian who have the kind of global reach that I have, not just with Asians but with non-Asians. I've worked hard for what my name represents, my brand, not just in Britain but around the world. "
Gurinder Chadha
Brand
People
Reach
" I've been wanting for a long time to create a show which allowed me to show the British Asian community in a truly three-dimensional way, exploring the relationships between generations and what it means to be British and Asian as values become fluid. "
Gurinder Chadha
Time
Values
Me
" The fact that it's hard to create an original British musical doesn't mean you shouldn't try. "
Gurinder Chadha
Create
Hard
Mean
" 'Up the Junction' really made me understand the power of cinema to create a vivid sense of a community. When I went on to make 'Bhaji on the Beach,' it was this sense I tried to recreate. "
Gurinder Chadha
Me
Power
Up
" My pregnancy was great, but the last three weeks were manic because my blood pressure was going up and up. "
Gurinder Chadha
Great
Up
Blood
" 'Up the Junction' went on to inform my love of British social realism. It was the first film I saw of this ilk, a very stark, visceral reflection of England, an England I didn't necessarily feel a part of but that I knew was out there. You could almost smell the bread and butter and cabbage. "
Gurinder Chadha
Bread
Feel
Film
" It's not simply that British films do well at the box office and generate revenue, it's that they provide a window to the world of what Britain and its culture is about. "
Gurinder Chadha
Box
Office
Window
" Third-generation Indians love maintaining their cultural traditions, but they can also go down the pub, shop till they drop, do whatever anyone else does. "
Gurinder Chadha
Traditions
Pub
Love
" The great thing about musicals is that they transcend race. "
Gurinder Chadha
Great
About
Race
" I know it sounds really weedy, but we are all children who seek approval from our parents. "
Gurinder Chadha
Children
Seek
Parents
" Bollywood is a cinema of vibrant contradictions, which works when it seems it shouldn't. "
Gurinder Chadha
Bollywood
Contradictions
Seems
" Our films have the ability to tell global audiences who we are, and this is something the government should feel compelled to protect. My film, 'Bend it Like Beckham,' for example, would not have been made without the backing and support of the U.K. Film Council. "
Gurinder Chadha
Support
Feel
Film
" My films do have a big following among young girls, and I want to instill confidence in them, a sense of self-appreciation - to make them feel they can be spirited and say what they feel. "
Gurinder Chadha
Feel
Want
Young
" When you're told that as a filmmaker of colour, the stories you want to tell aren't commercial enough, then you start thinking, 'I'm going to tell them anyway.' "
Gurinder Chadha
You
Enough
Start
" As I grew up, I always refused to cook Indian food very vehemently, and to this day, I don't cook chapatis at home. I'd always say, 'Why do I have to do it? Why don't the men do it?' "
Gurinder Chadha
Say
Day
Food
" One of the things I want to do with 'Desi Rascals' is go a bit deeper into the characters and their family lives and have a bit more heart and a bit more inter-generational story-telling, so it's not all about young people. "
Gurinder Chadha
Heart
Family
Young
" I remember a picture on the front page of the 'Sun' during the Brixton riots: a rasta guy with a petrol bomb, and a headline saying something like: 'The Future of Britain.' And I thought: 'Wow! Look at the power of that image,' and I wanted to get behind the camera to make these people three-dimensional. "
Gurinder Chadha
Look
Power
Saying
" Southall Broadway, in west London, has been a constant part of my life from the day I arrived in England as a baby from Kenya in 1962. My parents rented a room in one of the terraces off the Broadway, and I've seen it change from an ordinary English high street to what is now 'Little India.' with a confident Asian community. "
Gurinder Chadha
Community
Day
Change
" I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve. "
Gurinder Chadha
Love
Film
Head