Film Quotes by Cherien Dabis

9 Film quotes by Cherien Dabis

Cherien Dabis shares her perspective on film in nine concise remarks. Though the compilation is brief, it offers a clear sense of her narrative concerns and cultural touchstones, making it a handy primer for readers new to her voice.

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When there's an actor involved, the actor's talking to the director or the director's talking to the actor. But when there are…

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Some of my favorite all-time movies - Wong Kar-wai is just amazing. In the Mood for Love is probably my favorite film…

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I watch everything from independent art-house cinema to foreign film. I don't watch as many Hollywood blockbusters but once in a while,…

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It's why I fell in love with movies. You can sit in a movie theater and be transported to a place that…

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On the American side, some of the movies that I watched when I was a kid, like E.T. or The Wizard of…

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I grew up watching a lot of Egyptian movies. My parents had this huge VHS collection of every Egyptian movie you can…

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When it comes to identity, that was an issue that plagued me for a lot of my life. It's something that I…

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I think that you have to have a really specific type of personality to be able to both direct and act, because…

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I have to try to watch myself and give myself feedback. People would take for granted that I was ready to go…

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I think that you have to have a really specific type of personality to be able to both direct and act, because it requires…

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I definitely did not play myself. As the writer of the script, I have traits of all the characters. I can relate to all…

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When it comes to identity, that was an issue that plagued me for a lot of my life. It's something that I wanted to…

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I knew that I wanted to live in a city, but had never really been to New York. But I was begging my parents…

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From as early as I can remember, I wanted to have something to do with the acting business. I was a TV junkie as…

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It's why I fell in love with movies. You can sit in a movie theater and be transported to a place that you never…

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When you step in to act, you just zoom way in on the longest possible lens and you're just totally in the point of…

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I watch everything from independent art-house cinema to foreign film. I don't watch as many Hollywood blockbusters but once in a while, I'm curious.…

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I discovered myself in the back-and-forth and in the hyphenated Arab-American way, and one of the things that I discovered was that I really…

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When there's an actor involved, the actor's talking to the director or the director's talking to the actor. But when there are not those…

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Jordan is many different things and there's many different parts of it. We don't ever really get to see a modern Arab city, a…

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Keep doing what you're doing no matter what anyone says. Defy your own doubt.

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I was really inspired by my own experience, and specifically my own identity crisis but larger than that, I also wanted to explore the…

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On the American side, some of the movies that I watched when I was a kid, like E.T. or The Wizard of Oz, those…

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