Asif Kapadia Quotes

I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

Bollywood is just amazing.

I'm fascinated by Bollywood.

Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.

In India, the films are not looked upon just as entertainment. They're a way of life.

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line; there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that.

We must have song and dance in our lives; we've had it ever since the inception of cinema in India. Our stories are very social-based, very human-based. We are a very emotional nation.

When I was a kid, my grandfather used to watch Bollywood films. There's a lot of colour and vibrancy to the Indian films.

At the end of the day, you don't remember 'Mother India' or 'Pyaasa' for the business it did, you remember them because they had a good story to tell.

I don't think I will ever understand Bollywood. And I'm happy about that because it is a big, crazy, world. It's too complicated and chaotic to understand.

I want to do Indian films based on scripts with a universal appeal.

Since the Indian film industry is one of the oldest, and I have grown up admiring all the movies, especially the classics starring Guru Dutt, I would love to work here.

'Rangeela' and 'Daud' are both exciting films. The songs, the music, the dances - they all blend so well.

I like watching a 'Ram Leela.' I like my dance and song.

It was only after moving to Mumbai that I was completely seduced by Bollywood.

I would like to work in an Aamir Khan movie because these movies have a message in them.

I still go see films for entertainment, and I love them, but for me as a filmmaker, I really want to have a purpose in telling a story.

Mumbai was magical, which I was really surprised by, and I got an insight into the world of Bollywood while hanging out with some Bollywood film stars while there.

India uses Bollywood, rather cinema, to tell its stories. It is one of the largest filmmaking nations in the world and so your talents get to tell stories about politics, love and drama through films.

If people ever stop making films about India, I'd never work again.

When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.

I am undoubtedly a 100 percent Bollywood product, but my heart truly lies in making music for the world and taking India global.

I did a show called 'Andaz' many years ago which was produced by Himesh Reshammiya.

I am a huge Kishore Kumar fan. What can I say? The man was born to entertain!