Though, technically, I'm shooting on location, my films are actually based inside a woman's heart. I think women are more emotional than men, and that's a thread I've explored in all my films. When I see TV these days, I'm shocked at how all the main women characters are portrayed as evil. Women are the foundation of everything, and they deserve to be treated that way on camera.
Interpretation
Yash Chopra emphasizes the emotional depth of women and criticizes their negative portrayal in media.
In this quote, Yash Chopra expresses his belief that women are central to storytelling, rooted in emotional richness. He critiques contemporary media for depicting women negatively and advocates for their rightful representation as fundamental characters deserving of respect and dignity in film and television narratives.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion panel about women's representation in film and media.
Though "Veer-Zaara" is a film about cross-border love, there isn't a word of politics in it. Forget politics, there isn't slap, not even a raised voice in "Veer-Zaara"(2004). It's a very intense, humane and emotional story. "Veer-Zaara" (2004) is a humble tribute to my home in Punjab. It's my tribute to the one-ness of people on both sides of the border. Every religion preaches peace. Then why the bloodshed for the sake of religion? Why are we destroying each other?.
I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.
Dressing well is a form of good manners.
When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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