100 years of Indian cinema has happened. Anything you do, feels like it has already been done. The struggle is to find a new and unique idea.
Interpretation
Creativity often feels like a challenge when many ideas have already been explored in art and cinema.
In this quote, Rajkumar Hirani reflects on the extensive history of Indian cinema, emphasizing the difficulty of creating original work in an environment where so much has already been done. He suggests that the true challenge for artists and filmmakers is to innovate and capture unique perspectives despite the saturation of existing ideas.
In practice
Use this quote in a film industry seminar to inspire new filmmakers.
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather than the need to write. I needed to figure out what was important to me as a writer.
The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
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