Mahesh Bhatt Quotes

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

I don't think one should be a slave to one medium.

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

I don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.

I hope to always keep stretching myself and not stay in one box or lane.

I want to try everything. I don't want to limit myself to anything. I want to discover as many characters as I can. I just want to explore.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.

'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.