Quotes by Imtiaz Ali - Page 1

I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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Cinema
Genres
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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Dear
Me More Than
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
Imtiaz Ali / Film Director
Travel
I Can
Reason
Trying
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If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
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Attention
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'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.
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Movie
Travel
Doe
Road Movie
Involve
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Direct
Zone
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My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.
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Casting
To Be Honest
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
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Subconscious
Flows
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Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
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Achieve
Influential
Wanted
Life My Life Anything
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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Movies Myself I Am
Discover
Observer
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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Journey
Indicative
Internal
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I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.
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Showing
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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Digital
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I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
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Love Movies Like
Dreaming
Making Movies
Till
Schoolboy
To Love
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I think I am a travel junkie and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
Imtiaz Ali / Film Director
Enjoyed
Junkie
Thinking
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I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.
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Travel
Enjoyed
Life I Am My Life
Anything Else
Places
Travelling
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On the contrary Deepika feels inferior to other people I was surprised when I realised it. She is straightforward & very giving
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Giving
People
Straightforward
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I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.
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Flows
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Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!
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Girl
Mom
Bollywood
Hero
Ask
Looking
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I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
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Age
Intrigued
Married
Natural World
Synthetic
World
Young Age
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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Film
Office
People
Profitable
Always People Will
Avoid
Fail
People Will Always
Offices
Shut
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldnt seated in the confines of your home.
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Home
Aspect
Personality
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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Travel
Aspect
Confines
Discover
Seated
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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Jobs
Accompany
Father
Irrigation
Taste
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I'm a big foodie. Hyderabadi cuisine is amazing, and the kind of mutton dishes available at some restaurants in the Old City is incredible.
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Available
Cuisine
Dishes
Mutton
Restaurants
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All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.
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Conscious
Decision
Fruit
Planning
Taken
Decisions
Borne
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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Travel
Luxury
Middle Class
Relative
Considered
Background
Meant
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I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.
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Enjoy
Excited
Mind
Obvious
Stories
Your Mind Me
Looking
Around
Beyond
Mind Your Me
Look Me Looking
Formulate
Look Mind Me
Happening
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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Deeper
Unexpected
Figure
Journeys
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I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.
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Class
Middle
Middle Class
Want
World
Background
Trains
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I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell.
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Journey
Adventure
Stories
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I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and their characters interwoven, they do end up together somehow.
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Interwoven
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The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.
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Biased
Cinema
Film Industry
Welcoming
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Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.
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Shopping
Bought
Brothers
Expenditure
Gifts
Great Experience
Guarantee
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I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor's performance goes to the actor alone.
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Credit
Screen
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I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.
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Delhi
Direct
Following
Life My Life Young
Audition
Big Part
Hindu
Joined
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen.
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Firsts
Influential
Stories
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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Influential
Subtle
Be The First
Certain Point
Highway
Intended
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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Awkward
Colony
Cricket
Lying
School Friends
Good Always Football
Stud
Teams
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I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.
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Film Industry
Media
Mumbai
Producers
Rooms
Select
Sitting
Theatre
Interested
Walk
Interview
Meet
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The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.
Imtiaz Ali / Film Director
Destination
Fascination
Giving
Intention
Views
Extent
Highway
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