Madhur Bhandarkar Quotes

I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.

My books aren't autobiographical.

In a book, you can kind of take time and have lulls in places.

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.

I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction.

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

There are things I read doing research, and there are certain books and writers I just love to read. There are books of Brian Morten's that I love, for instance. There's a wonderful book by an Australian writer named Helen Garner called 'The Children's Bach,' and I just love the way she uses language in it.

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.'

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

I love making movies.

First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling.