Mithila Palkar Quotes

Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.

I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

Minneapolis just embraced me. There are a lot of weirdos here. It's awesome, because I'm a weirdo. Thankfully, the city embraced me with open arms. A lot about Minneapolis helped carve my musicality and open my eyes. The whole town is so open-minded compared to like, you know, Texas.

I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good.

If my kid came to me and said 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.'

'Coriolanus' has been around for 400 years, and it's going to be around for another 400 years, and nothing I can do is going to mess it up. So, going into it, I felt sort of very free to look at it as a filmmaker does.

I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is - to how I would play it. It took me a while to get rid of 'Oh, they want it this way, so I'm going to do it how they want it.'

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you can't possibly please everyone.

I'm not there to tailor the role to me: I'm there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I'm guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.

I tried working with the best of directors and producers. I tried being selective, but things didn't work out. Now, I am open to working with anybody and everybody who is good. Or I'll try to make it good. That suits me.

There are times when a film turns out differently from how it was narrated. But I don't look at it as a bad thing.

I have to say, my family's always been incredibly open and encouraging of any way I might want to express myself. At a very young age, they accepted that my outlet would be writing, and comedic writing, and they were pretty accepting of that.

Whatever script comes to me, I like everything.

I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came up against anything.

I'm not as savvy and knowledgable about all of the directors that are out there, but as a person, I'm really open-minded and love meeting new people and watching the way directors film and their perspectives and following their lead.

As a screenwriter, you always have frustrations. It's just the nature of the job, and you have to live with it. Your vision is not going to be the same as the director's vision. It doesn't mean one is better or worse; it means they're different.

I let the song guide me. I move through the space that I'm given rather than trying to make an impression on the material. I'm curious to learn from the music.