Aditya Roy Kapur Quotes

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

I love making movies.

I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.

One thing I'm passionate about is directing. I've always wanted to direct.

If you want to just make a good movie, if you don't enjoy every step and become a master of each little moment, then you shouldn't be doing it.

I wasn't one of those kids who grew up watching movies thinking, 'That's what I want to do when I grow up.' I didn't really particularly know I had an aptitude for it.

I had had no aspirations to be a filmmaker or a writer.

I don't look at it as a career. I've just made a few films, and I want to make a few more.

Every film I've done, I've tried to pick ones where I can learn.

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.