“Accessible, emotive, the ultimate conveyor or distorter of truth, the photograph is all-powerful.”
“Urdu, a distorter of tongues, pilfering as it does from Persian, Hindi, but largely Arabic, uses the masculine word for coup d'etat – inqilab – for revolution, rather than the accurate feminine: thawra.”
“Very soon we realise that this film is not merely set in LA, it's about Hollywood as a place, an industry, a creator and shaper of dreams and narratives, a distorter and destroyer of lives.”