Words matter. These are the best Imtiaz Ali Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative’s place or a religious shrine.
My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
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 feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor ‘does,’ and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor’s performance goes to the actor alone.
I’m not the ‘look at me’ kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.
When you write a story, it just flows and you don’t control it. It’s subconscious.
Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with ‘Highway,’ there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended ‘Highway’ to be the first film that I ever made. Didn’t happen.
The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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.
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.
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.
I think ‘Rockstar’ is more dear to me than any of my other films.
I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn’t seated in the confines of your home.
I want to direct what I feel is interesting – not what is supposed to be my zone.
Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
I’m not educated about cinema or genres.
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.
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.
I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
I’m a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible.
The story of ‘Highway’ is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don’t want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.
Sometimes I don’t know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
