Farhan Akhtar Quotes

That little window like 2004 through like 2010 was probably the most, like most inspiring time of my creative life, for sure.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together. This happened in 1989. Since then, it's been a long road of educating myself in every possible way.

That is my reality. It's that important to nurture and foster my own creativity. There are plenty of birthday parties I haven't been able to go to, weddings I haven't been able to go to because I've been working. Those are things that have not been easy to give up, but at the same time, it is my reality. It's my responsibility.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and you get a chance to investigate yourself; that's healthy, and it's therapeutic in a way. But if you're indulging yourself, exploration at the cost of the story or the project, that's not good.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

I kind of discovered my voice for the first time, and the more I did it, the better it got.

I gave up writing for seven years (very biblical) and picked it up again, still clueless and still seeking the exotic, when I was twenty-one.

I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.

I design therefore I become.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

I think maybe one day I'll go back to music. I don't know. I don't know if sometimes you lose a passion or you don't lose it, it becomes more personal and less about sharing it with everyone.

I'm a human being first and foremost, and I have something to say that I think is worthwhile. 'Blue Caprice' is just the second installment of so much more coming.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

I certainly felt like my life had been enriched and had also changed forever when I took 'In A World...' to Sundance.

Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.