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Use filmmaking to eliminate racism — use to it terminate misogyny — use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.Abhijit Naskar
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The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.Abhijit Naskar
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Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.Abhijit Naskar
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A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.Abhijit Naskar
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Make movies my friend — make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.Abhijit Naskar
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Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.Abhijit Naskar
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Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.Abhijit Naskar
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Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.Abhijit Naskar
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Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.Abhijit Naskar
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Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste — romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.Abhijit Naskar
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Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now.Abhijit Naskar
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The best way to avoid a catastrophic conflict of beliefs is to be more compassionate about other people’s beliefs as long as they do not advocate for prejudices, bigotry and sectarianism.Abhijit Naskar
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Those who mock at you, shall one day worship you.Abhijit Naskar
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It is not speed that matters, it's persistence.Abhijit Naskar
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We all have the power to influence others. It is up to us, whether we are going to abuse that power to manipulate people or use it to help them.Abhijit Naskar
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Doubt not the self O lion-heart, for those who call you crazy will one day worship you.Abhijit Naskar
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Whatever you do, do it as a master, not as a slave.Abhijit Naskar
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It does not matter whatsoever, what the people around you think you can or cannot do. What really matters is what you think about your capabilities.Abhijit Naskar
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Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race — it is beyond religion — it is beyond all sectarianism.Abhijit Naskar
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There is no such thing as predestined. Human destiny in the human world is determined by none but the humans.Abhijit Naskar
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Your fate lies in your hands.Abhijit Naskar
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Confidence of a dedicated person, seems to be over-confidence to ordinary masses.Abhijit Naskar
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Be the help you seek from others.Abhijit Naskar
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Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that.Abhijit Naskar
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Don’t ask for miracles. You are the living embodiment of all the miracles in the world.Abhijit Naskar
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Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future.Abhijit Naskar
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Art is the medicine for the soul.Abhijit Naskar
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Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources.Abhijit Naskar
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Oscar may be the world’s most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment which you receive from making your film.Abhijit Naskar
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Neurons giveth and neurons taketh away.Abhijit Naskar
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Never forget O Brave One, the best kind of existence is to exist for others.Abhijit Naskar
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I once renounced my home in Calcutta, and roamed around the villages of Bengal as a monk. But after I attained the Absolute Divine state of Unification with the Universe, I realized that the purpose of life is not renunciation of anything, but the realization of the purpose itself.Abhijit Naskar
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God doesn’t help anyone, humans do.Abhijit Naskar
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Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.Abhijit Naskar
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Those who put their heart and soul into something bigger than themselves, never die from the psyche of humanity.Abhijit Naskar
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You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation’s citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they watch.Abhijit Naskar