Imtiaz Ali Quotes

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• I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
• My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards…
• I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was…
• I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white…
• Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
• I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and their characters interwoven,…
• The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
• I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
• I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I…
• I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
• My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
• All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy…
• If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
• I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
• I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
• I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct.…
• I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and…

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