75 Quotes by Zoya Akhtar

We are absolutely open to working with outside directors. But the criteria for working with outside directors would be the script they have, the kind of vision they have.

Who will you replace Dibakar Banerjee with? There isn't another one.

I don't really know a normal family. In fact, I don't know a perfect person. So, how can a family be perfect and frankly if there are any, they will be very boring like I won't want them over for dinner.

See I think we are nervous about every movie before it's release, irrespective of who has directed the movie.

I definitely want a partner and would like to spend the rest of my life with somebody, but I don't care if am married or not.

When you colonise someone's dream, that's the worst thing you can do.

The biggest piece is my family... From watching films like The Godfather on our dining room wall, to having a great relationship with my sibling. Or going on weekend trips with our cousins to the beach and eating all day... it's been a crazy childhood; a 'bohemian one'.

So, I have those spurts where I get completely mad because I have those stories to tell but if I don't have, I'm happy to kick back also.

I want to do all kind of films. I don't want to be bracketed into one kind of cinema and if somebody does that, then it is on them.