I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.

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• Gurinder Chadha:

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• Gurinder Chadha:

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• Gurinder Chadha:

  'Up the Junction' really made me understand the power of cinema to create a vivid sense of a commun

• Gurinder Chadha:

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• Gurinder Chadha:

  One of the head guys at Disney categorically said to me, 'We don't want to make children's films an

• Gurinder Chadha:

  DVDs have their place, but the cinema is a tangible, emotional experience that I would hate my chil

• Gurinder Chadha:

  For British cinema to survive, you really need a British film culture, and it's got to start down t

• Gurinder Chadha:

  I was a good Indian girl, but naughty in that I would often sneak out of the back door and into the

• Gurinder Chadha:

  All my films are about kind of being seen to be one thing when you're actually something else, and

• Gurinder Chadha:

  Britain has nurtured me and made me able to make movies that have travelled round the world.