Shekhar Kapur Quotes

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• Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.
• If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.
• Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?
• In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.
• A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.
• Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.
• We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.
• I tell a story, and therefore I exist.
• 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…
• Cosmetic companies are trying to turn India into a nation of Albinos. No dark area on any part of the body. Except maybe our hearts.…
• True love can exist only in freedom from possession.
• Fall in love so madly that every leaf whispers words of love to your lover. Every raindrop explodes with only one word as it hits…
• I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.
• When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You…
• In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we…
• I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk classes. But that is how…
• I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.
• I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India.
• It is awkward to see a director on the screen.
• Great actors are people who just meld into the part without calling attention to the fact that they are so-and-so doing this part. They may…

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