Rishi Kapoor Quotes

The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell.

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

I give away thousands of paintings for free.

The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.

I am proud of my heritage and have happily taken advantage of every opportunity to educate my teammates and Steeler Nation about American Samoa, both as a player and in the community, through the Troy and Theodora Polamalu Foundation Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.

Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

I couldn't imagine doing a show where I'd once again have to answer to corporate interests.

I think the good thing about Macklemore is that he is very precise about what he gets involved in. As you can tell, he's very passionate about what he puts his name on, because he talks about things people don't usually talk about, and his concepts are very, very passionate.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

In one respect, I like the freedom of using all the people that I love instead of being dictated by the studio to use the hot person of the moment.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.

Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed into the anonymous machine, and it will suck out any specificity and point of view that you might hope to express.

I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.

I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.

I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.

Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that's part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you'll be able to make films for a more selective audience. I think people will be able to make more personal movies.

We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

Art and politics must move closer together. Reflection and action must be equally valid in good men if history is not to take one course and art another.

Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

I don't want to come and conquer American films or the American market. I just want to do movies that I care about, stories that I like.