Shweta Tripathi Quotes

The audience loves watching masala films, and I love to make what the audience likes. I also think it is easy to make a masala film.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

I don't look at scripts in terms of commerciality. I just look at the part, the people involved.

Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.

I never, in anything I've ever done, tried to get you to like it. I was never going to succeed at that. That's not the way most entertainment is made. Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

I don't necessarily go out and try to do something that's going to be just something that will please the audience. I'm not interested in doing something where I get the most people to come see the movie at the same time and they get the biggest explosion. I'm not interested in that.

Bollywood is a business more than an art industry. One has to play the game others play to carve your own path.

If I like a script, I will definitely pick films of different genres, but I won't do something just for the sake of it.

Every time I decide not to do a commercial film, a masala film, I'm closer to myself.

I have no qualms working on a quintessential Bollywood film, but I can't work on mindless no-brainers. I have too much self-respect for that.

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.

I don't do anything keeping Bollywood in mind.

I'm trying to do work that makes meaning and sense to me and the audience. But I have no qualms. I'm always willing to be a part of commercial cinema.

The reason why I'm not a pop star is I would have hated it. I'll stick to being an artist. I'm not trying not to be commercial; I am just doing what I do. I have finely tuned tastes, and that gets prioritized above everything else. That's just how it is.

When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.

I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

A writer writes what interests him and what he can manage, and what he can make live, as Flannery O'Connor said. So my reaction to someone saying "You must!" or "You should!" or even "Hey, why don't you?" is basically to sort of shrug and politely walk off and do whatever I want to do. It's nobody else's business, really, and even if I happened to agree with one of those "musts" or "shoulds" what would I do about it, if my heart wasn't in it?

I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have been able to work with the directors I've worked with if I did those studio films.

I can't understand marketing. I think it's because I never looked at what I do as a job. I've rebelled against that and I will continue to.

I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

You do what you're supposed to do, but you have to be honest about what they're doing. When you do a comedy show on a network the problem is there are going to be a bunch of people who aren't comedians that are going to tell you what's funny.