42 Quotes by Imtiaz Ali

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.

Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.

I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.

I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.

Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.

I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.

I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.