Adeel Akhtar Quotes

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it.

I try to make a film that's very entertaining, very funny, but also gives you something to think about. And the strongest thing I have to offer is my point of view, to get across how I see the world in hopes that it can change the way other people see the world, hopefully for the better.

I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years.

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

I am a Utopian. What else would I be? I am living in America.

Comedy can take you a lot further in getting your point across. People are entertained, and then, by being entertained, they get your point.

Of course, all my films are high on comedy, but I ensure there's something for the audience to take back home.

The power that you have as a storyteller is to be able to tell stories that are at once entertaining but also never lose sight of what's going on in the real world.

I love entertaining and I love storytelling.

Some people want to live in a world much prettier than the one I depict. But it exists, and I talk about it because it exists.

The purpose of making a successful film is to blend entertainment with social content.

'Tangerine' taught me that if you win an audience over with comedy, then hopefully have a soulful message at the same time.

There were people that grabbed you just by talking, and that's what I loved about professional wrestling when I started out. That's why I'm already so good. That's why people literally hang on the edge of their seats when I have a mic because they want to know what I'm going to say.

A good story isn't preachy; a good story is always entertaining.

If you have an ideal world, your actions should follow suit. And that will sort of hopefully spread.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

Good marketers tell a story.

Progress is the realization of utopia.

The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.