Zoya Akhtar Quotes

Zoya Akhtar

Profession : Director

Birth : October 14, 1972

As a director the first level of management is people. You have to deal with about 100 creative egos and make sure they subscribe to your vision and give you their best.

Zoya Akhtar

Don't try to be anyone else because that's been done before. Find yourself and what makes you tick.

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I had the best shooting experience in Dharavi. People are so cooperative and busy with their work that they don't have time to be star struck.

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As far as the theatrical experience is concerned, I will be highly disappointed if that goes away. I have grown up watching films in theatres so that community experience should never go.

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I have learnt not to ignore instincts. While making a film, when your gut feels that you are going wrong, please take that seriously.

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I have a phobia. I have a serious phobia of rodents. I don't even like white mice, hamsters.

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I had a press conference and I fell down on stage! Because I was in a skirt, dude. And there was this genius on stage and someone told me please sit and I went to sit and he pulled the chair off from under me! I did my whole thing, after that, I was really upset.

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I only drink wine, beer, and champagne. I've never had hard liquor, I've never had a whiskey drink in my life. I just don't like it.

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Every time we have a woman on-screen, we can empower her in a different way rather than just giving a speech on the importance of equality and empowerment. I think sometimes we have to show her as powerful.

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As cinema is a reflection of the world around us, with more women coming into the mainstream business, more women narratives will grab the limelight.

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When it comes to writing characters, whether men or women, I think a good writer writes good characters. I know many men who, for years, have written strong, progressive women characters.

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I write my films with Reema Kagti, and I think all the characters that I have written, somewhere or the other, reflect my thoughts, ideology and morality.

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I am always pleasantly surprised by the criticism because I learn from it and sometimes shocked by it.

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I don't know what will come my way but I will continue to tell stories that excite me. I feel human beings are same everywhere, they work from a gamut of emotions the rest is just backdrop.

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