I think there is nothing more important in forming a human being than your family. It is how you have been brought up and been taken care of that eventually is how you will deal with and treat the world. Zoya Akhtar Read Quote
Because you don’t have opportunity to study, you don’t have opportunity to further yourself. And you kind of tend to believe your lot that this is what you have been given. I think on some level we have colonised people, our own people. Zoya Akhtar Read Quote
The whole class system has oppressed so many people and given them such lack of opportunity. They are fed such strong narratives that this is where you belong and this is where you are. Zoya Akhtar Read Quote
It is nice to be out there, amongst contemporaries on a global scale. You meet different people, see different things, meet different producers, eventually grow to collaborate in different ways. The world is getting smaller. It’s nice not to be insular. Zoya Akhtar Read Quote
I want to make a period film, I want to make a film set in another country. I want to make a foreign film. I want to make everything eventually. I am a storyteller. I have many stories to tell. Zoya Akhtar Read Quote
Even though ‘Luck By Chance’ is set in the film industry, the lead characters are people you know and see, but they are not your friends. Zoya Akhtar Read Quote
In ‘Gully Boy’, of course, Ranveer Singh’s performance has largely decided what the songs will look and feel like. Zoya Akhtar Read Quote
I mean tomorrow if I want to make a film about a queen that lived in the 15th century, I can’t be like I can’t make it. I should be able to make it. Zoya Akhtar Read Quote
But if you can empathise with a character and if you can emotionally resonate with that character and understand their emotional journey, I think you are home. Zoya Akhtar Read Quote
