Mahesh Bhatt Quotes

My films are like drinking a good beer, but pleasure doesn't mean that it cannot change someone's point of view.

I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are a lot of films out there made by people who are genuinely trying to make a change.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.

To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.

What I want to see is more mixed casts. We need it. People need to be brave - in the real world, everyone and anyone is around. So if people get to see themselves on the stage, they'll want to come.

I know that it's my queer perspective that's helping people make songs that the world is listening to.

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

My music reflects the time on which we live, both in terms of arrangements, as well as in the subjects treated in the lyrics.

You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something funny than to read something tragic. It just goes over better because you have a finite amount of time with somebody. Of course, in a book, you have a lot of time. But you still do want to make a certain impression right when you begin.

Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we are to busy to ask the only vital question which measures the whole structure. Why theatre at all? What for? Is it an anachronism, a superannuated oddity? Surviving like an old monument or a quaint custom? Why do we applaud and what? Has the stage a real place in our lives? What function can it have? What could it serve? What could it explore? What are its special properties?

There are so many wonderful shows that come out through the year. What makes some stick is an unknown factor, you know? It's gotta be the right show at the right time. Really, you've got to have magic elements line up. But I felt that this was going to be something that was really going to ring true to people.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.