Pankaj Kapur Quotes

If a film is entertaining, it will work irrespective of anything. It should be entertaining and engaging; otherwise, it becomes a documentary.

What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

There are two kinds of films: the ones that are devoid of logic but can still hijack the audience, and those that can win them over with logic. Both kinds can succeed, and I like to work in both.

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.

Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to something a little higher, you're just kicking your butt around the corner. You can only take so much of that. You have to have some sort of foundation to explode from.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

Film as a medium, like a novel as a medium, possesses a unique ability to communicate. Film is capable of communicating in a way that no other medium can, and I would say the same for the novel.

I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

In a film, you only have a finite amount of time, and you're so concerned with saying what happened and making it a gripping short story with a satisfying ending.

I'm not very particular about the commercial angle in my films, but entertainment is very important.

Every film is a journey.

Dialogues and emotion based movies don't always work.

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

I feel the primary job of cinema is to entertain.

It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.

I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.