Sally Potter

Sally Potter
Charlotte Sally Potter, OBEis an English film director and screenwriter...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth19 September 1949
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I was struck by the large number of men who came up afterwards to grill me on what I knew about Islam. But they were very respectful and serious.
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Many musicals are about putting on a show and, when that happens, you know the filmmakers are really talking about their own process of bringing ideas to the screen. The story is a vehicle for looking at other things,
We've always wanted Josh, but he had something else going on that weekend.
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We've had people from Texas, northern Wisconsin, Toledo, Cleveland. We've had lots of people from Ann Arbor and Detroit.
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This scene is really the heart of the whole story.
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It wasn't my intention to make any grandiose political statements here,
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The store had run its course and you've got a world where new goods are incredibly cheap now. The lease was up the middle of August and I looked around and said we've had a great run. We're done. It's sad but yet it's a completion of a very fun era.
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When goods are down, and you're selling used, you have to price a lot cheaper,
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I am not interested in making didactic polemical statements. That is not the way I want to make films. There is a place for polemics, but I don't think that it is in fictional cinema. Fictional cinema works subtly and deeply.
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The female struggle implies the black struggle, it implies the struggle with anti-Semitism, it implies all of the other struggles. That is the only possible way to think about human liberation.
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To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.
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My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me.
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Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make a family, make a nest. Women were pushed back into the home after having been active in the Second World War. It was a big Doris Day moment for women, which didn't suit all women.
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A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread.