Quotes from Dimple Kapadia

I love playing poker, reading, and painting.

I was never a chiffon and satin person. I am always a cotton person. It's just the way I am.

Films cannot change anybody's life. That's a load of crap.

I read a book on candles and got curious. I followed it up by taking a course with famous London-based candle maker David Constable. And now these have become the passion of my life.

I made my film debut in 1973.

My candle-making business gives me decent money.

Our family was always together. Whenever Kakaji needed something or wanted to discuss some issue, he would always bring it up with us. Certain things happened that brought us closer.

I get attracted to different things. I have a different take on everything. I like to do different things. I don't like the regular stuff.

There was always a conscious effort on my part to do different cinema. It's taken time for the directors to accept me.

I have done enough, and I am not dissatisfied with the body of work that I have done.

I think Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, and Ranveer Singh are doing a fabulous job.

I can do something for 30 days or 50 days. I can program myself, but I can't give my year for a shooting. No, I will die. I can't handle it.

I often meet directors who want to cast me as the protagonist, but if the rest of the characters are not strong enough, the film is bound to fall flat on a creative level.

I haven't been a prototype mother.

Direction or even production doesn't fascinate me at all.

If there has to be one favourite actor of mine, it has to be Rajesh Khanna.

Where can I earn money if not from my work? We do some films for money and some for creative satisfaction.

I became a wife at 15 and was a mother of two at 18.

There is certainly no formula of making a successful film, but there are means to make a sensible film.

People call me fussy, but that's a fallacy.

I have had so many gaps that I have not been consistently working, and the thing is that you get better with more work.

If I had to do it all over again, I would still get married at 16.

I can dress down, but I can't dress up. I'm not a great one for glitter.

I just love candles... the colour, the glow, the light.