Pankaj Kapur Quotes

In fact, sometimes when a short film is done well, you wish that it could be slightly longer.

I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

Everything I do, I do it with the hope that people will watch it more than twice. Whether it's 'Pan's Labyrinth' or 'Pacific Rim' or the opening of 'The Simpsons,' I do it with that hope.

Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

I love cinema and creating new things, but essentially, I am creating all this because I want people to see it.

I think there are always going to be people who say, even if they are engaged in the movie, they just want it to move faster.

I appreciate artistically made movies, but as an audience member, I want to be entertained, too.

I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

When I go to a movie and can't figure it out, I'm just thrilled.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

I just want to keep people entertained.