Gulzar Quotes

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

TV is our window on the world. It's a powerful medium for great stories that become part of our very, very personal journey.

Cinema has a large scope as it is a mirror of society and with the mindset changing, people are taking it more seriously.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

No movie can claim to be a work of philosophy. They fulfill a totally different need in people.

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.

It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

You can't get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it's just the icing on the cake.