Harshvardhan Kapoor

“I look for subjects which are very personal for the director and luckily I have found that. I look for master directors.”

“For the longest time I was contemplating on becoming a writer-director. But somewhere between the age of 18 and 21, I decided to do the acting thing.”

“I am very patient.”

“I am very boring. I am not a party guy or a social kind of a guy. I like to have conversations and watch movies, but I don't think I can entertain large crowds.”

“I'm saying you can't market every film in the same way.”

“Vasan Bala is one of the best and has his own style of doing things. In his films, the humor is dark and bizarre but it is also entertaining.”

“There are so many fantastic women out there who are not models or actresses.”

“It's very rare to find scripts that are poetic and very romantic.”

“I want people to be patient and to not have any preconceived notions about me being Anil Kapoor's son. Give me a chance with an open mind.”

“I am an introvert. I just like to go to a set, work and go back to sleep.”

“I've spent time with Abhinav Bindra. He is an introvert. He is quite restrained and does not get carried away by his achievements. He has a very dry sense of humour and keeps his cards close to his chest. Even when the man won the Olympic gold medal, he was so calm.”

“In terms of myself, I have reseen 'Mirzya' several times and there is not a moment that I can change about that film.”

“You can be anybody's son, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to whether people are excited to see your film or not.”

“I can't imagine the amount of hard work and dedication that it takes to make your way through. But, once you do that then it is about how talented you are. We have examples like Ranveer Singh, Sidharth Malhotra and Sushant Singh Rajput and then from film families we have Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Sonam Kapoor.”

“Aamir Khan was a very big influence, I think, when my generation was growing up.”

“When I'm choosing films to work on, the first question I ask myself is, does this story stir my passion?”

“A lot of actors kind of jump from one project to another. They take two-three weeks and condense everything in that time.”

“I believe, in a film, everything doesn't need to go like a bullet or in a straight line. Everything doesn't need to have a reason, sometimes things are just there. I come from that school of thought.”

“I look at myself and the films that I will be doing, and that films will create my identity.”

“I am very original, not contrived, in terms of who I am, and what my skill set is.”