Quotes from Pankaj Kapur

I am not a person of schedule when it comes to writing.

Even Dopehri,' if somebody has a bit of imagination, the way it's written, they will be able to see that it's a screenplay with dialogues.

In the 80s, parallel cinema gained momentum. So, I got back to films and won National awards for Maqbool' and other films.

Most of the theatre work that you see in India is very verbose and the visual is whatever you can create on stage.

Creativity should be balanced with commercial interests.

As an actor, I am not comfortable with an artificial beard.

I have learnt to become patient as an actor.

The least anyone can do is pay attention to their parents and people who are elder to them.

There is a perception that I do certain kind of films. That's not true. I am open to any good scripts with a good role.

I must say that Bengaluru has been one of the best places where I've performed and I would love to associate with the theatre scene here on a personal level.

I was required to jump from a parachute into a lake and for this I was dangled in the air 100 feet above the ground with the help of a harness. It was scary in the beginning as I had never attempted such a thing before.

I don't have any single character that is my favorite because I would like to be known for the sum total of my work and not for an individual character that I might have played.

As a kid I wanted to be a pilot.

Over centuries, we have attached too many meanings to religion.

In a play, a few actors perform a few characters, and they need to perform those characters with a certain level of believability so that audiences can actually understand and see them as those characters.

I might not do it again and again, but I would like to test waters which are considered forbidden for me. It is a human tendency.

I have been fortunate to get different types of work, but by and large till 90s for actors like me there were not many opportunities besides playing brother of the heroine or friend of the hero or young college villain after the earlier new wave was consumed by television.

We compare everything with what is being done in the West. Even the film reviews are written like that. It is sad because we are trying to belittle ourselves.

I admit I'm choosy. That's because I like to concentrate on what I'm doing.

'Mausam' is about seasons of love and not exactly about the weather.

As an actor, my desire was always to be different, there was a desire to associate yourself with projects that bring about the contemporary situation.

My wife and I often have debates about who studied in a better school and when I list KVM alumni, she kind of loses the argument.

Delhi is where I began practising theatre, it is always special to perform in the capital.

I was looking to play different characters, and films didn't offer many choices.