Zoya Akhtar Quotes

"Don't try to be anyone else because that's been done before. Find yourself and what makes you tick."

"Freedom is a sentiment associated with the youth. It is rebellion. It is what you feel at that age, and it is very important."

"When you colonise someone's dream, that's the worst thing you can do."

"To make a good film is an art. Gender is irrelevant when it comes to craft of filmmaking."

"I'm obsessed with people, I'm obsessed with human behavior. I just watch people."

"Pieces of my life, no matter how scattered, are being stitched together and reflect in my work."

"Every time you make a film you want to put something out there and that's important to me."

"At the end of my life, I want to have a body of work that has everything."

"I feel like all my films have my politics. As a film-maker, whatever story you're telling, your value system comes out."

"I am always pleasantly surprised by the criticism because I learn from it and sometimes shocked by it."

"I like movies too much. I watch all kinds of films. In a way, all filmmakers are basically audience."

"I'm a writer, so I like nuances."

"So at 19, I faced my first blank page as a professional writer."

"Well, everyone in my family is a writer. There is a big contribution on the script level by everyone."

"When you're scoring music for a film, it has to be interwoven with the narrative, it has to reflect the mood, the ethos."

"I love music, but can't hold a note in a bucket. I can't sing, can't play an instrument."

"I am thrilled and very grateful that 'Gully Boy' has been picked as India's official entry for the Oscars."

"But disco is the remedy for ghosts."