Ramin Bahrani
Ramin Bahrani
Ramin Bahraniis an American Iranian director and screenwriter. Film critic Roger Ebert listed Bahrani's film Chop Shop as the 6th best film of the 2000s and hailed Bahrani as "the director of the decade." Bahrani was the recipient of the prestigious 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, and was the subject of several international retrospectives including the MoMA in New York City, Harvard University, and the La Rochelle Film Festival in France. Bahrani is a professor of film directing at Columbia University's Graduate...
anyone depressing fed hear kinds remember response sent took watch weeks
I put it in Fed Ex and just sent it there. I really didn't have the kinds of connections that you hear about. It only took two weeks between Fed Ex and getting a response I remember them being the most depressing weeks of my life. I didn't think anyone would want to watch the film.
attention corner guy hope indulge pay paying street wants
The movie is about a guy on the corner of the street who no one wants to pay attention to. I hope you will indulge me in paying attention to him for a little while.
orange-juice world stealing
We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.
mom dad kids
We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad think he should have a helmet on. I don't think they should have a helmet on. They should break their leg and have an imagination. Otherwise, we're going to have a nation of accountants.
comes-and-goes
You have to let life come and go.
running zero school
The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes of people who don't have a high school diploma, don't even speak English, and offer them a home at zero percent down, that doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense.
interesting film used
Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about human beings.