Film Quotes by Shekhar Kapur

9 Film quotes by Shekhar Kapur

Shekhar Kapur provides nine succinct observations about movies, each statement echoing his director’s eye. This concise collection gives a quick sense of how he frames storytelling on screen.

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It is awkward to see a director on the screen.

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Heath Ledger is someone I know and would like to do a film with.

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I've never looked at film-making as a career. I've looked on film-making as an adventure. When you come down the mountain, you…

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As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first…

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When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight…

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Not knowing whom to fall in love with is like not knowing which film to make next. Life is pretty chaotic; it's…

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Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the…

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I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often…

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I'm working on a film called 'Bonnie.' Bonnie means water. It's in English, and it's dealing with a future world in a…

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It is interesting that Nehru fought and kept saying that if you break India into languages, there is no end to it.

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India was formed on the idea 'Let's get the British out.'

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In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories…

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I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.

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I am not possessive at all. In every relationship I have had, the girl has left me. And the fundamental complaint has been that…

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I gave up the idea of having a career when I was 24. Sounds glamorous, but I've been doing things since then, and part…

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I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India.

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The question is - did Richard Attenborough have a right to make 'Gandhi?' And did Danny Boyle have a right to make 'Slumdog Millionaire?'…

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I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

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I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

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As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth…

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Fall in love so madly that every leaf whispers words of love to your lover. Every raindrop explodes with only one word as it…

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Filmmaking is a great adventure. I'm as excited as a kid to be given tickets to fly suddenly to England, South Africa, America, everywhere.…

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I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.

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When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 A.M. That first blush of blue is…

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