Shekhar Kapur Quotes

I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

I don't think I've decided much in my life. Don't you think life just happens?

I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.

Living involves making bold choices. You can't always know how they're going to turn out, and you can always play that game of wondering what might have been if you had made another decision.

I'm not a matchmaker, I don't know the logic behind the decisions they make.

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

Fate is strange, and our destinies can be shaped by very small decisions.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?