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• ‟ 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a fairy tale, but it starts in a place you really believe, and that came from spending two months wandering around the slums picking up stories and talking to people.

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• ‟ I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

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• ‟ I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things?

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• ‟ You do need people. You can't live without them. We're all interconnected in some way.

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• ‟ In the midst of global recession, in the face of uncertainty about what's going to happen next, film looks for inspiration to real people.

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• ‟ In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.

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• ‟ You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in 'The Full Monty' or Aron Ralston.

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• ‟ The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.

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• ‟ Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones.

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