Passion keeps me going. I love my work. The need to come back, no matter what, and my passion towards my work keeps me going.
Ekta Kapoor
Though personally I'm not a fan of celebrating with fireworks, it is beautiful to watch the sight from a distance.
I think success is what you make of it - of course there is always the factor of luck, but one should always be equipped to seize the moment when opportunity knocks.
If someone doesn't like something, it's their prerogative not to like it. It's not possible to please everyone. That doesn't mean that I'm going to change my mental make-up. I follow my instinct.
Expect the unexpected from me!
I don't work that hard.
When I made TV shows, people called them regressive. Clearly, everyone wants to generalize everything, but I like to choose a middle path.
The people in Kolkata are very different. They don't wish to be super rich but give more importance to education than anything else. They are very innocent at heart, and one can sense a lot of purity in them.
I am a terrible actor.
I'd rather make my own mistakes and pay for them rather than pay for mistakes that are formulistic.
Through these years, I have attempted to create magical moments between my characters because, be it television or films, life is about the moments we create while living through it.
Balaji has always had great market presence, be it in film or television - everyone was talking about the titles, about what happened on the sets, even the most bizarre and outrageous things are out there to be judged by audiences who inevitably decide to come to the theatres to watch our film.
I've grown up watching 'Mawaali,' 'Himmatwalla,' and my love for masala movies started from there, and ever since, there's no looking back.
My spirituality and my beliefs are way beyond any superstition - I'm not a conformist - and I do have a scientific outlook towards religion. Our body is made up of different elements, and certain stones help align these elements.
I love 'Koi Aane Ko Hai.' It is my favourite show because I believe in this genre.
I have always wanted to outdo myself, be it films or shows.
I can't create magic, where all my serials will have the highest ratings.
I am bad mannered, naughty, and one of those few people who lands up in controversies, but I guess that's expected of me.
Even though you might believe you have the best product on the market or the best film in a really long time, not everyone will agree. The film may be the best thing since sliced bread, but you have to have great publicity to back it up.
When I want something, I go out and get it. That's Ekta Kapoor for you!
The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.
I am a living contradiction.
I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings.
When you talk about a daily soap, it means one would be seen 28 days a month, which requires 30 days of shooting. So an actor being seen on a show airing four days a week and being telecast thrice a day comes along with a baggage of the character.
I've been able to chart out my professional life. But I can never chart out my personal one.
People are always trying to figure me out, given the varied nature of my films and shows.
For me, it's quite scary to go ahead to make my characters say things because, at times, you might actually be influencing a mind - and not one but many of thousands of minds.
I really find Jodha-Akbar a fine example of a couple, true or not, that people need to see today.
Diwali is chaotic in the Kapoor household, and that's an understatement. I normally throw a huge card party with all my close friends and my close knit group from the industry.
Television is about identifying with the characters.
I don't think 'Jurassic Park' could have been so much fun had Spielberg not made a 'Schindler's List.'
I'm just a simple television and film producer who started off from her garage and whose only idea was to tell a story.
I started working at a time when most of my friends were still figuring their lives out.
I've always said time and time again that I hate anything conventional.
I cannot stop gushing over the reviews that 'The Dirty Picture' has garnered. I'm glad that people are loving it.
My work begins at around 3 P.M. I wake up at around 2 P.M., watch my serial cassettes, jog for 30 minutes, get my make-up done, and plunge into meetings lined up with my directors. By evening, I finish all meetings and go to my office, where I handle any problems that may have arisen there.
As a producer or even as a basic seller, you need to be confident about your product.
I remember, as a kid, when any woman/girl came close to my dad to get his autograph, I would throw a complete tantrum - yell shout and sometimes even fight!
I have full confidence that the Sequel Queen is a tag that's going to stick... And I will be loving it!
I'm my dad's biggest fan and, yes, sometimes his worst critic.
I'm in competition only with myself, and I always want to push the envelope.
All my shows airing on different channels have been the top shows.
As a producer, I am dying to explore psychology and urban dilemmas - say, fatigue - in a marriage.
I am an entrepreneur, but not in the conventional sense. I have learnt business as time passed, but I do not have a B-school education.
TV is very mass, especially now that boxes are shifting to small towns.
Creative instinct is personal.
I am very reactive and malleable. I have to figure out when to be hands on and hands off. If I am hands on all the time, I can't do too much. But my attitude works in a certain way. So the idea is to spread your personality, your attitude.
I'm told Jodha was someone whose eyes conveyed humility, simplicity, courage, and conviction. Paridhi embodies everything I had in mind for Jodha.
If I don't like a person, I always speak out.
I am not a person who will mince words.
