Akshaye Khanna Quotes

I don't want to do every independent film offered to me.

People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?

I would have happily done 'Bourne Legacy,' but a lot of decisions are made for you.

I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.

It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that really tickles my fancy.

There's a few movies I wanted to do, and I didn't get to do them partly because they wanted me to be part of the horse and pony show, getting the money, and I'm just not doing that. There's a few movies that people wanted me to do, but they were too safe.

If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

I'm shying away from getting lost in really bad movies for really good money.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.

For me, Malayalam films remain the most important. I don't want to do more Tamil films just for the sake of it.

I don't want to be picky and say that I only want to do films.

When you ask me why I do one film a year, it is not my fault. I've chosen what I liked from whatever work came my way.

I don't really have a preferred genre. It's more up to the individual project itself and if I feel compelled by it.

I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?'

Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it.

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

I make the kind of music I like.

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

I like to make movies I like to watch.