Imtiaz Ali Quotes

I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.

My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.

The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.

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 building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.

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 not planning.

On the contrary Deepika feels inferior to other people I was surprised when I realised it. She is straightforward & very giving

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. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.

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 of India.

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much ... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.

I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

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 a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.

Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.

I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.

I'm not educated about cinema or genres.

The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell

Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!

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 just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and their characters interwoven, they do end up together somehow.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

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 cannot get away from; I would not even want to.