Sudhir Mishra’s advice

Filmmaker Sudhir Mishra has tons of advice for aspiring artists and filmmakers in a free flowing conversation-style piece. Part of a series he’s doing at Passion For Cinema.

And I think young people today see too many films. I think it’s a bad thing. You should live life a bit, otherwise there’s a danger of being pretentious. If there is too much of conversation there’s a danger of dropping names like Amorres Perros without having any notion of the life Innaritu has lived, the context in which he has lived, the society which he stems from. It’s exactly the same as when we were growing up in cinema and saying, let’s take a Tarkovsky shot. You can’t take a Tarkovsky shot – because he’s Russian, he’s Christian, he’s reactionary. Tarkovsky is a very …very reactionary man. He is very deeply religious in a sense – he’s spiritual and within that, because he’s so truthful and because he is so much steeped in Russian literature, painting, poetry, folklore – he’s Russian to the core – and therefore that shot. So how can you take that shot?