Shekhar Kapur

We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.

— Shekhar Kapur

You're not a star until you love yourself. Directors, yeah, they've got to love their own philosophies. But actors have to really…

— Shekhar Kapur

When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 a.m. — that first blush…

— Shekhar Kapur

In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being…

— Shekhar Kapur

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

— Shekhar Kapur

Great actors are people who just meld into the part without calling attention to the fact that they are so-and-so doing this…

— Shekhar Kapur

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

— Shekhar Kapur

There's a lot of imagination in Asia, and I believe that the next Google will come from there, and the next Pixar.…

— Shekhar Kapur

It is awkward to see a director on the screen.

— Shekhar Kapur

If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in…

— Shekhar Kapur

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

— Shekhar Kapur

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…

— Shekhar Kapur

It was expected of all good middle-class Indian people to build India and, as you know, Indians - when we say, 'build…

— Shekhar Kapur

Cosmetic companies are trying to turn India into a nation of Albinos. No dark area on any part of the body. Except…

— Shekhar Kapur

Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.

— Shekhar Kapur

My own feelings of where I am in this world and the questions that I am asking myself, I started to explore…

— Shekhar Kapur

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

— Shekhar Kapur

I think that I altered history in 'Elizabeth,' and I interpreted history far more than Danny Boyle or Richard Attenborough did to…

— Shekhar Kapur