Imtiaz Ali Quotes

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

  Imtiaz Ali

  Influential, Achieve, Wanted

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• Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldnt seated in the confines of your home.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Home, Personality, Aspect

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• I think I am a travel junkie and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.

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  Thinking, Junkie, Enjoyed

  "I’d like to give Jab We Met an overhaul: Imtiaz Ali". Interview with Rajeev Masand, www.rajeevmasand.com.

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• The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

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  Views, Giving, Fascination

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• All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.

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  Taken, Decision, Fruit

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• 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.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Jobs, Father, Taste

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• I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

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  Trying, Reason, I Can

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• I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell.

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  Adventure, Journey, Stories

  "Highway Diaries: Songs of the Kashmir valley echo in ‘Highway’" by Stacey Yount, bollyspice.com. December 9, 2013.

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• I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

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  Age, World, Married

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• 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.

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  Class, World, Want

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• 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. Didnt happen.

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  Firsts, Stories, Influential

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• I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

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  People, Office, Film

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• On the contrary Deepika feels inferior to other people I was surprised when I realised it. She is straightforward & very giving

  Imtiaz Ali

  People, Giving, Straightforward

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• 'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.

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  Doe, Road Movie

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!

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  Girl, Mom, Hero

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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