75 Quotes by Zoya Akhtar

It is a part of us, film-makers and audiences; what we can't say with dialogues, we say with a song. We tell stories through songs, look at our folk cultures.

I mean tomorrow if I want to make a film about a queen that lived in the 15th century, I can't be like I can't make it. I should be able to make it.

At the end of my life, I want to have a body of work that has everything.

My evenings are usually spent eating cake with tea, which I should stop. Then I either hang with friends or watch something. I like my evenings free because that is when I get to spend time with myself, my dogs or with friends.

When you're scoring music for a film, it has to be interwoven with the narrative, it has to reflect the mood, the ethos.

I like movies too much. I watch all kinds of films. In a way, all filmmakers are basically audience.

So at 19, I faced my first blank page as a professional writer.

Freedom is a sentiment associated with the youth. It is rebellion. It is what you feel at that age, and it is very important.

I like hip-hop personally. It is a genre I am very attached to and have been listening to all my life. But I have always engaged with foreign artistes, never with mainstream Indian hip-hop rap space.