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Ramin Bahrani

(1975) Screenwriter

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Ramin Bahrani is a screenwriter.

Quick Facts About Ramin Bahrani

Born: March 20, 1975
Profession: Screenwriter

About Ramin Bahrani

Iranian-American director and screenwriter (born 1975)... | Ramin Bahrani is an American director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert ranked Bahrani's Chop Shop (2007) as the sixth-best film of the 2000s, calling him "the new director of the decade". Bahrani was the recipient of the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship. Bahrani is a professor of film directing a

Quotes by Ramin Bahrani

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

Actor

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You have to let life come and go.

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I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

Action

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I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any…

Actors

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So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

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I think happy and hope is more hopeful when you acknowledge that there's awful things too.

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Sometimes we have dreams, but we just can't make them. That's normal.

Dream

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The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by…

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It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and…

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Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they…

Cinema

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We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down…

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I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own…

Cinema

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Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for…

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I like poetry, but honestly, I like dramatic literature more. If I had to pick between Rumi and Dostoevsky, I would pick…

Action

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The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes…

Banks

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We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom…

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I believe in the utmost importance of one human being's actions toward another. This is actually what I believe in. How we…

Action

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