Nikita Thukral Quotes

It is quite surreal having a film made about your life. The whole process of turning real life into drama is interesting in itself, but even more so when it is your own life being put into the narrative forge.

Turing was always a legend among computer/geeky kids. He was such an outsider in his own time, and because of that, he was able to see things differently. It was a story that had been well told in books, onstage and on TV, but never on film.

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life.

I don't think there ever will be a biopic on me! I would much like some of my books to be made into films.

My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie.

I would love Jimmy Stewart to play my life story.

I am interested in biographical stories. Seldom are good biopics like 'Maha Nati' being made.

That's not going to happen, because I don't want it to happen. I don't want a movie about me until I'm very, very old - when I'm very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged.

I am going to be playing Qandeel Baloch in a biopic. I have cut my hair in order to play her.

It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on your mind's screen?

The film world is always looking for great source material, and Broadway has traditionally and historically been a place to go.

I want Priyanka Chopra to do my biopic. I think she is very good and lovely. Priyanka would be the ideal actress to play my part.

I've always wanted to do a role based on a real-life person.

It would be good if there is a biopic on me. But even if there is no biopic, then also it's fine.

After I met Ajay Bhuyan, we thought of making the English TV show 'Prison Break' as a Telugu film. Ajay put it all down, but somehow, we felt it would not work. Then 'Dhada' emerged.

When a director is remaking a film, he should tweak it, add Bengali sentiments to it and make it look like a regional movie. A copy-paste job is something I don't support at all.

People have talked about a biopic on my mother. And I am excited about it. In such a short span, it was one hell of a life lived. It is special. I would love to have a biopic made on her.

The story of Bennet Omalu is a riveting story; it's just a riveting tale. I knew from the beginning if I stayed close to that kind of storytelling and focussed on the character, then the other stuff comes along with it, and the message becomes baked into the journey.

'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.

The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form of the film adaptation of J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.'

The think that we hung the film version all on was 'Hedwig' on tour. On stage, it's one theatre, one show. It just seemed natural to change it. In the film, we were able to go to flashback rather than have her talk to the audience. And we had the play to practice and to see where we had made mistakes.

'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'

As a writer, I think about films I work on in a traditional Hollywood kind of a way. I'm curious to see how it translates.

Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.