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« I'm not naive. I know that films are very powerful. But I certainly don't say, 'I'm going to make a film that has a social message,' or 'Because I'm coloured or I'm a woman it has to be this way, otherwise it might be misinterpreted.' I want to be free to explore everything, even something that doesn't make me look too good. If I want to explore it, it has to come from a place of honesty and not what is expected of me because I happen to be non-White or a woman. »
-- Deepa Mehta

Source :
MCGOWAN, Sharon. « Excerpts from a Master Class with Deepa Mehta » , dans Women Filmmakers: Refocusing, sous la direction de Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis et Valerie Raoul, Vancouver, UBC Press, 2003. [en anglais] (pp. 290-291)