Shekhar Kapur Quotes

Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?

True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.

Fall in love so madly that every leaf whispers words of love to your lover. Every raindrop explodes with only one word as it hits the Earth.

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

Cosmetic companies are trying to turn India into a nation of Albinos. No dark area on any part of the body. Except maybe our hearts. Got a cream for that?

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.

In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.

Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.

When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 a.m. — that first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other.

If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.

I spent 15 years of my career trying to convince people that Indian cinema is relevant. I am so proud of Indian cinema and I am so proud of my Indian roots. The IIFAs are doing a great job to this effect.