Top 60 Vivek Agnihotri Quotes

I enjoy working on different genres.

I was busy in making a film called ‘Buddha in a Traffic Jam’ and it consumed two and half years.

It is very difficult to convince producers about a script without having the backing of a star.

Bollywood is neither an industry nor a corporate house. It’s a jungle of ambition where every one wants to grow taller than the other.

I think up to the 1990s, there were a lot of political commentaries in our films… on oppression and women empowerment.

From Mira Road to Malad, Mumbai is full of such outsiders, wanting to become Shah Rukh Khan.

The Tashkent Files’ is not a propaganda film.

I have many characters inspired from real life.

People call me a Modi bhakt now. I used to be a Marx bhakt. I was part of what I now call the intellectual mafia. I used to believe in it, and worked for it. My eyes opened up when I began to travel, and meet different kinds of people.

For a love story, basic emotion should be there, you need a combination of everything. Good chemistry between the actors, music, script. If even one of them is not in place, the magic will not be there.

I think we need more love stories.

In this industry, people want a ‘yes sir’ attitude. But ad men usually have a chip on their shoulders. We have more money and are more successful. We call everyone by the first name. My assistants call me Vivek but I don’t care.

I believe when your ideas are pure and honest, when you give your heart to something, God automatically propels you in the right direction.

Anil Kapoor is a star. He reinvented the characterisation of heroism.

Outlook came at a time when India Today was at its peak and on its way to becoming a sarkari magazine. At the time, we were in college, and all moved from IT to Outlook. However, over the years, my reading of the magazine has gone down greatly.

Modi is a great orator.

With sport dramas and war movies, it is always about accomplishment, where people are fighting for their country or community’s honour.

There is nothing wrong with socialism or communism but they are irrelevant now. Some intellectual terrorists are provoking people in the name of these ideologies just like some religious terrorists go and demolish mosques and want to build temples in their place.

While thinking about ‘Freedom,’ I took ‘Hate Story’ as a challenge and did justice to it. We shot it like a beautiful international thriller.

If one tries to expose the Harvey Weinsteins of Bollywood, some very big empires and icons will fall down. My nephew was a victim of one of those. But who will fight their muscle? You need many Kangana Ranauts for that.

A city’s soul is best observed during the morning, what is the culture of the city, how are the people, you also get to know whether the city is cosmopolitan or religious.

I am interested in a constructive approach, which looks at how wealth can be created using bright ideas that will help India prosper.

I won’t name the real-life people who have inspired me, as I don’t want publicity.

I never had the guts to tell my parents that I wanted to be a filmmaker. I had to take a very long route to finally arrive here.

I knew ‘Hate Story’ would work. I had expected a great opening but the fact that it has completed 50 days at the box office is an overwhelming feeling.

Content means a film that makes a difference, it means it says something.

Stars sell a film.

I am not that kind of a director who makes two films per year.

I did ‘Junooniyat’ because I wanted to challenge myself.

When you show a corrupt police officer in a film, you don’t mean that all policemen are corrupt. You just point to the fact that there is corruption in the system.

I am passionate about film festivals.

When I was studying in JNU, I realised how students and professors address each other as comrades.

I have always had a problem releasing my films.

The CCP has become the political incarnation of the deadly coronavirus, infecting the world with illegal trade practices, arm twisting smaller nations, debt – a.k.a death – traps and sinister imperialist ambition.

I will perform my duties as a cultural ambassador representing the film industry with the best of ability.

Buddha’ is my third film but I chose to release ‘Hate Story’ first because I wanted commercial success.

In India’s eastern side, there are communist terror outfits and in the western side there are Islamic terror organisations. These outfits ensure that there is always a state of anarchy.

I was one of those students that would protest and think the unrest will help create a revolution.

I don’t think content matters at all. Content won’t matter unless it matters to the stars. Producers are helpless people… They don’t dictate or guide content. It is dictated purely by stars.

I am a rooted person, ‘Awwal’ is a social satire.

The world will see the other side of Delhi in ‘Freedom.’

I have a connection with Bengali heroines. I have worked with Tanushree Dutta and Bipasha Basu.

No director wants to make films with stars. It is a compulsion for them.

I don’t want to repeat myself as a director.

When I made ‘Chocolate,’ no one had made suspense thrillers for a long time.

Arundhati Roy has been called many things, including a terrorist.

The entertainment industry has three kinds of politics – sexual politics, money politics and power politics. A desperate actor can become victim of any of these political games.

Rahul Gandhi himself doesn’t have any vision or the political acumen to be able to differentiate between sycophancy and sincere advice.

In India, we surrender and compromise. We end up getting a star who is not fitting the character.

Real heroes and true leaders have emerged only when they were wounded and were left alone to die.

I always wanted to make ‘Freedom,’ but I had to drop the idea due to financial crisis.

Hate Story’ is about power of women and I feel her bare back poster with a gun justifies it.

There is so much corruption in India that some filmmakers were using political or administrative sources to get access.

Without the Naval Uprising of 1946, the story of India’s freedom will never be complete.

You will always have a tough fight when you are expressing yourself and not impressing people. The path of truth is a lonely journey.

Censor board should be abolished.

I don’t believe in preachy films. I don’t like such films. Having said that, I don’t even enjoy films that only ‘entertain.’ That way, even the circus entertains.

When a country’s government is involved in something, no filmmaker tries to make a film on it.

When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.

I was planning to make ‘Hate Story 2,’ but I stepped out of that project. I don’t want to repeat the genre.