Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Vivek Agnihotri
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian director Vivek Agnihotri.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I won't name the real-life people who have inspired me, as I don't want publicity.
Our films have to entertain without the viewer being guided to a humdrum set of do's and don't's. At the same time, as a filmmaker, my films should evoke some feelings, some thoughts in their minds. That's the purpose of cinema. It has to be a learning experience without advocating rights or wrongs in a subtle manner.
Anil Kapoor is a star. He reinvented the characterisation of heroism.
In India, we surrender and compromise. We end up getting a star who is not fitting the character.
Bengali women have a lot of sensual appeal.
When I was studying in JNU, I realised how students and professors address each other as comrades.
When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.
I am extremely honoured by Indian Council For Culture Relations, India's apex body on the promotion of great Indian culture across the world for including cinema and I am deeply honoured for being the first person from the Indian film industry to represent the cause of this industry in the overall cultural promotion globally.
I was one of those students that would protest and think the unrest will help create a revolution.
When you don't have money for marketing, you explore alternate ways.
Arundhati Roy has been called many things, including a terrorist.
I am not a part of Bollywood. Nobody cares about me in Bollywood and I have mentally resigned from Bollywood long ago. I am an independent filmmaker.
All I want to achieve is to present the unreported history of Kashmiri Hindus.
Rahul Gandhi himself doesn't have any vision or the political acumen to be able to differentiate between sycophancy and sincere advice.
Be it at JNU or any institute, students want India to shine. They want the country to get rid of mediocrity and hypocrisy.
I always wanted to make 'Freedom,' but I had to drop the idea due to financial crisis.
The best way to test whether you are saying the truth or not - if you say something and people don't react then it's not the real truth. But if people start reacting then what you are saying has got an element of truth.
You will always have a tough fight when you are expressing yourself and not impressing people. The path of truth is a lonely journey.
No. You can't do that. We won't let you go to Bollywood... ' This is the standard reaction of small town, middle class parents whenever their child expresses his or her desire to join the film industry.
The entertainment industry has three kinds of politics - sexual politics, money politics and power politics. A desperate actor can become victim of any of these political games.
I understand sociopolitical problems of the country, they bother me a lot.
China's relationship with the world has changed dramatically since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan resulting in human lives and global economies being ravaged.
Hardik Patel and Kanhaiya Kumar are absolutely intellectual terrorists - they have been created.
If there are no stars in your film, nobody will look at you. If you have Sunny Leone in the film you will get hundreds of dollars but if you have a honest story to tell it's difficult to find producers.
The Tashkent Files' is not a propaganda film.
We used to have a genre called Muslim social drama which nobody in the world has. Writers from North India and Bengal came and wrote great stories. Then that stopped.
I will perform my duties as a cultural ambassador representing the film industry with the best of ability.
I used to spend not just my summer vacations at my Nani's house in Kanpur but my Diwali and Holi holidays too.
Censor board should be abolished.
The Chinese countryside has become a slave labour camp and dumping ground for every imaginable pollutant. The rural peasantry is being sucked dry by corrupt government tax collectors.
I don't think content matters at all. Content won't matter unless it matters to the stars. Producers are helpless people... They don't dictate or guide content. It is dictated purely by stars.
Making a film is not about one person. It involves a whole lot of permutations and combinations. Everything has to fall in the right place.
I have always had a problem releasing my films.
In this industry, people want a 'yes sir' attitude. But ad men usually have a chip on their shoulders. We have more money and are more successful. We call everyone by the first name. My assistants call me Vivek but I don't care.
I believe when your ideas are pure and honest, when you give your heart to something, God automatically propels you in the right direction.
Bollywood is neither an industry nor a corporate house. It's a jungle of ambition where every one wants to grow taller than the other.
I have many characters inspired from real life.
Whenever I visit Lucknow my soul gets refreshed.
I am interested in a constructive approach, which looks at how wealth can be created using bright ideas that will help India prosper.
A city's soul is best observed during the morning, what is the culture of the city, how are the people, you also get to know whether the city is cosmopolitan or religious.
I never had the guts to tell my parents that I wanted to be a filmmaker. I had to take a very long route to finally arrive here.
China has become a ticking time bomb, facing many wars within, triggered by a number of internal ticking economic and demographic tinderboxes that threaten to bring on that which the Chinese people fear most - 'chaos' or 'luan.'
From Mira Road to Malad, Mumbai is full of such outsiders, wanting to become Shah Rukh Khan.
There is nothing wrong with socialism or communism but they are irrelevant now. Some intellectual terrorists are provoking people in the name of these ideologies just like some religious terrorists go and demolish mosques and want to build temples in their place.
I have a connection with Bengali heroines. I have worked with Tanushree Dutta and Bipasha Basu.
People call me a Modi bhakt now. I used to be a Marx bhakt. I was part of what I now call the intellectual mafia. I used to believe in it, and worked for it. My eyes opened up when I began to travel, and meet different kinds of people.
I have a wish list for 'Awwal.' I want to work with Ajay Devgn. I need an entertainer, a big star as this is a big film. I feel Ajay will be suitable for the film. He can seriously carry a comic role.
Nobody has a problem if you promote your child, even they are incompetent or have no merit. It's fine, it's your child, your money. But the problem comes when you destroy my career to protect your child's or your friend's career.
Stars sell a film.
I am very passionate about mentoring, training and channelising the youth energy of India because I believe the youth of India is extremely creative and if we can channelise their energies in the right direction, we can make India a global leader in the creative and innovative areas.
Failing is not a sin.
When a city lends itself to film shoots, it becomes cosmopolitan.
There is so much corruption in India that some filmmakers were using political or administrative sources to get access.
Chocolate' is an orbit in which seven different characters keep moving from one place to another to reveal a bigger drama. It's about how ordinary people get stuck in extraordinary situations.
Real heroes and true leaders have emerged only when they were wounded and were left alone to die.
The Kashmir Files' is based on the mass exodus of Kashmiri pandits from the valley in 1989-90 due to militancy.
The CCP has become the political incarnation of the deadly coronavirus, infecting the world with illegal trade practices, arm twisting smaller nations, debt - a.k.a death - traps and sinister imperialist ambition.
Modi is a great orator.
I don't believe in preachy films. I don't like such films. Having said that, I don't even enjoy films that only 'entertain.' That way, even the circus entertains.
When you show a corrupt police officer in a film, you don't mean that all policemen are corrupt. You just point to the fact that there is corruption in the system.
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