They made it very clear that I shouldn’t try to be Data because there is only one Data, you can’t ever recreate the magic that Brent Spiner made.
It’s not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it’s not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.
And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that’s like basically good.
The first play I did was a funny one called ‘The School for Wives’, by Moliere. We were wearing the ugliest wigs and the worst costumes you can ever imagine to try to recreate 17th-century France in Singapore. But I got my first real pay cheque from that. I was very happy taking that cheque to the bank.
We had to recreate the banks of the river Yamuna on a studio floor. It wasn’t easy… or cheap.
I love the creative outlet of designing, and I love make-up and products and feel like I find so many great products around the world that I want to recreate, so I want to do that or design.
In my music, I’m never going to force anything to try to recreate a moment or something.
You don’t want to disappoint, or feel like you’re trying to recreate the magic of something.
Don’t recreate something that’s already been created and is good. You want to have an idea, think of different idea. Don’t think of someone else’s idea.
You can never go back to a time and try to recreate that sound, because that time is done.
All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It’s easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.
Mark my words, ‘Aashiqui’ will be a tough act to follow. It will be very difficult to recreate that magic.
When you’re trying to recreate an era, eyebrows and hair are the most important thing to consider.
I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
I can never recreate the magic that ‘Indian’ did in the ’90s.
Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don’t like to recreate steps that I’ve already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.
We’re all the same, and we all want the same thing. We all want to be secure. We all want food on the table. We want to know that our kids aren’t going to be destroyed when they’re not with us. We all want the same things, and if we’ve been hurt in our childhoods, we try and recreate the same hurt.
‘Up the Junction’ really made me understand the power of cinema to create a vivid sense of a community. When I went on to make ‘Bhaji on the Beach,’ it was this sense I tried to recreate.
I have my pride. I’m a director. I’m not going to go and recreate some other director’s vision.
The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.
Listen, acting is not surgery, it’s entertainment. You’re doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we’re vulnerable is that we’re always trying to recreate human behaviour.
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