Boney Kapoor Quotes

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first.

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

I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.

I brought my personality to HQ. I injected my DNA into this thing. They gave me a blank slate to work with.

I seem to have been possessed by a mind of my own and I did not merely want to be a pop product, but I wanted to be an artist which was always my ambition.

I do only what I like. If we do something we don't like, we will become someone else.

I'll remain an individual, and as long as I get excited about something, I'll do it.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.

I wouldn't push my kids to do anything. I want them to be happy, healthy, and I want them to be who they want to be, you know?

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

And the fact that you must make the movie for yourself because no one else will ever fully appreciate the endeavor, makes it a more rewarding challenge.

You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.

I only make movies I want to go see.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

I don't see myself in competition with anyone, I am in my own space; I don't follow anyone, though I appreciate good work always.

The great thing about letting people be true to themselves is they often do very good things indeed.

I think a lot of people feel that they want something softer. Things are changing. It's about individuality, and in a way, it's romantic.