Shekhar Kapur Quotes

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.

I was very interested in history, but I also thought, you know, history is not that interesting sometimes, and it can feel a bit medicinal.

I've always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I liked to audit them.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

Making history whole is about uncovering secrets.

I write to learn the flow of history.

History turns me on. I was terrible at it at in school, but as I get older, I get more and more into it.

I love to read history; at its best, it is an art.

I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself.

I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.