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Patricia Rozema Quotes

born 1958 Canada

Patricia Rozema (born 20 August 1958) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, who first came to international prominence with her award winning film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987).

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Isn't life the strangest thing you've ever seen?

Sometimes "fidelity" can mean only focusing on one day of a story told over twenty years in a book.

You cannot underestimate what a radical thing it is to change from one art form to another.

I believe in tension and release, in that if you stay in the the same tone and mode and intensity for too long, it actually becomes monotonous.

I wanted [Martin] to be a really decent human being because I didn't want to depict the cliché that a woman becomes a lesbian because her husband is terrible to her.

Our voices, our representation of ourselves, have been in the hands of others, namely men, since the beginning of the mediums of film and television. My main character in I've Heard the Mermaids Singing videotaped a confession that is used through the film. It's her way of having control over her definition of herself.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Patricia Rozema (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.