Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Vivek Agnihotri - Page 2

Outlook came at a time when India Today was at its peak and on its way to becoming a sarkari magazine. At the time, we were in college, and all moved from IT to Outlook. However, over the years, my reading of the magazine has gone down greatly.

No director wants to make films with stars. It is a compulsion for them.

Content means a film that makes a difference, it means it says something.

Hate Story' is about power of women and I feel her bare back poster with a gun justifies it.

If China has cheap labour, Africa has cheaper labour. This is why China started buying out poor countries.

I am passionate about film festivals.

Football is very cinema friendly and the intense competition that the game involves only charges up the atmosphere. This cannot be achieved with cricket.

I enjoy working on different genres.

Buddha' is my third film but I chose to release 'Hate Story' first because I wanted commercial success.

Hate is a very intense emotion.

China's hyper-growth is causing the world's most populous nation to spin out of the control of its leaders.

It is very difficult to convince producers about a script without having the backing of a star.

From Brazil, Cuba and Venezuela to Equatorial Guinea and the Ivory Coast, China dangles lavish, low-interest loans and sophisticated weapons systems as bait. It then uses its 'weapons of mass construction,' a huge army of engineers and labourers, to build everything from roads and dams to parliament buildings and palaces.

I knew 'Hate Story' would work. I had expected a great opening but the fact that it has completed 50 days at the box office is an overwhelming feeling.

I think up to the 1990s, there were a lot of political commentaries in our films... on oppression and women empowerment.

When I made 'Chocolate,' no one had made suspense thrillers for a long time.

With sport dramas and war movies, it is always about accomplishment, where people are fighting for their country or community's honour.

I think we need more love stories.

China understands that without energy there is no growth and without growth there is no power.

The world will see the other side of Delhi in 'Freedom.'

When a country's government is involved in something, no filmmaker tries to make a film on it.

I was planning to make 'Hate Story 2,' but I stepped out of that project. I don't want to repeat the genre.

I did 'Junooniyat' because I wanted to challenge myself.

While thinking about 'Freedom,' I took 'Hate Story' as a challenge and did justice to it. We shot it like a beautiful international thriller.

Goal' is a human drama. It is a triumph of human spirit where football is the device through which the characters actualise themselves and find victory in their lives.

I was busy in making a film called 'Buddha in a Traffic Jam' and it consumed two and half years.

I am a rooted person, 'Awwal' is a social satire.

Everyone has stories but they don't know how to tell these stories.

Love stories are the most difficult to make.

After making two big movies 'Chocolate' and 'Goal' with big stars and being completely involved with making ad films as such, the time had come to reinvent myself not only as a director but also as a human.

The most difficult things in the world is to touch anybody's heart.

It is difficult to touch hearts than mind, because in the mind you do have some reference point.

Hate has destroyed more than what love has ever created.

Without the Naval Uprising of 1946, the story of India's freedom will never be complete.

If one tries to expose the Harvey Weinsteins of Bollywood, some very big empires and icons will fall down. My nephew was a victim of one of those. But who will fight their muscle? You need many Kangana Ranauts for that.

For a love story, basic emotion should be there, you need a combination of everything. Good chemistry between the actors, music, script. If even one of them is not in place, the magic will not be there.

I am not that kind of a director who makes two films per year.

I was making commercial films like 'Chocolate' and 'Hate Story.' Then came a time when I realised that such stories only entertain for a week, and then we forget about them.

I don't want to repeat myself as a director.

In India's eastern side, there are communist terror outfits and in the western side there are Islamic terror organisations. These outfits ensure that there is always a state of anarchy.