Quotes by Shekhar Kapur

About Shekhar Kapur:

Shekhar Kapur is an Indian film director, actor and producer known for his works in Hindi cinema. Kapur became known in Bollywood with his recurring role in the TV series Khandan in the mid-1980s and his directorial debut in the cult Bollywood film Masoom in 1983, which won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie for that year.
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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 get ready to climb again.

Shekhar Kapur

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 tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

Shekhar Kapur

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 where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other. Harmony is the notes that Mozart didn't give you, but somehow the contradi...

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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?' Quite honestly, if they didn't have the right to make these films, I had no right to make 'Elizabeth.'

Shekhar Kapur

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

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It is awkward to see a director on the screen.

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

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

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

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There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world.

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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 upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

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

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

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I think that I altered history in 'Elizabeth,' and I interpreted history far more than Danny Boyle or Richard Attenborough did to 'Slumdog Millionaire' or 'Gandhi.' They took Indian novels or Indian characters and very much stayed within the Indian d...

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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 students are supposed to be, no? I developed an interest in history much later. I have made a few films based on historical fac...

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

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There's a lot of imagination in Asia, and I believe that the next Google will come from there, and the next Pixar. I believe that the great new media companies will come out of Asia and surpass the big media conglomerates that exist right now in the ...

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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 never become huge stars, but will always, in memory, stay respected actors.

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Author Bio

  • NameShekhar Kapur
  • DescriptionIndian film director
  • BornDecember 6, 1945
  • CountryIndia
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director; Accountant; Blogger; Film Producer
  • AwardsPadma Shri; Filmfare Awards