Shekhar Kapur Quotes & Sayings

“You're not a star until you love yourself. Directors, yeah, they've got to love their own philosophies. But actors have to really love themselves.”

“I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.”

“My own feelings of where I am in this world and the questions that I am asking myself, I started to explore them through the story 'Four Feathers' and through this actor called Heath Ledger. I knew that I had to find a 21-year-old who could play wisdom at the end. He's only 21 or 22, and I tested him.”

“I am not possessive at all. In every relationship I have had, the girl has left me. And the fundamental complaint has been that I am self-contained. I am just comfortable with myself and am always on an adventure.”

“In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.”

“I think that I altered history in 'Elizabeth,' and I interpreted history far more than Danny Boyle or Richard Attenborough did to 'Slumdog Millionaire' or 'Gandhi.' They took Indian novels or Indian characters and very much stayed within the Indian diaspora.”

“When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.”

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

“I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.”

“It is interesting that Nehru fought and kept saying that if you break India into languages, there is no end to it.”