25 Kanika Dhillon Quotes for You to Enjoy

Kanika Dhillon

Indian Author

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Everyone is hungry for content and you are content creators and if you are not negotiating a good price no Robinhood is coming to save you. Kanika Dhillon

Good You Everyone Negotiating Hungry Price Content Coming Creators Save

I don't think in genres. Once I get a germ of an idea I wait for it to die! And if it refuses to die and keeps coming back, I start thinking more about it. Then come the world and the characters. I wait to get bored and if I don't get bored- then I start building on them. Kanika Dhillon

You can be imaginative, you have the technology to convert your vision, you have the freedom to write the kind of stories you want to tell beyond the set formulas. Also, you have varied platforms to tell different kinds of stories. Kanika Dhillon

Even if you are a superstar, you have to give your audience some content. Because there is so much good content out there that people consume today. To sustain this, you have to nurture good content and writers. Kanika Dhillon

Today Good You People Nurture Out Some Give Superstar Consume Writers Content Because Audience Sustain Much Your Even

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium. Kanika Dhillon

Whatever Medium Writer Always Author Screenwriter Aspired

Your influence and remuneration is directly proportionate to your film's success. So in that sense, Bollywood is a level playing field. If you are delivering on certain parameters, regardless of your gender, you will get paid. Kanika Dhillon

I took six months to rehearse how I'd ask Shah Rukh Khan if he would launch my debut novel. I thought of 100 ways to ask him. Finally, three weeks before the book hit the stands I went to pop the question and forgot everything I rehearsed. Kanika Dhillon

Book Thought Three Before Took Khan Everything Finally Months Ways Launch Would Weeks He Him How Question Hit Debut Six Forgot Ask Pop Stands Rehearse Rehearsed Novel

I am happy writing and being a producer not a director. Kanika Dhillon

Director Happy Writing Am Being Producer

As a director you have to live and breathe that one story for 8 months completely. I like variety, if I write extensively I get a writer's block so I do something else to beat the boredom and then get back to something I've already done. Kanika Dhillon

We are living in a world where image is important and we feel the need to confirm to a standard of what beauty is and how beauty should look like. We look at the billboard, and feel something is lacking in us. Kanika Dhillon

World Important Beauty Living Something Feel Like Look How Lacking Where Confirm Us Should Billboard Standard Image Need

I was 17 when I wrote a collection of short stories and wanted it published but it didn't happen. A lot of publishing houses don't allow young authors to enter into writing segments. Kanika Dhillon

Writing Young Enter Collection Segments Allow Wrote Houses Lot Authors Short Wanted Happen Stories Short Stories Published Publishing

Size Zero' tells the story of a woman and the challenges and body shaming that she faces on a daily basis. I wrote the dialogues of that film, and I was approached for a remake. But I had already said what I wanted to say. Kanika Dhillon

Daily Challenges Woman Say Tells Faces Remake Had Wrote She Said Size Wanted Story Body Film Daily Basis Zero Basis

Yes, I enjoyed my share of fantasy fiction series and comics. Among superheroes, Spiderman was my favorite. I always had this fascination for costume-clad vigilante who would come and save the day! Kanika Dhillon

Usually superheroes with all their powers and action-driven narratives are supposed to appeal to boys and men more than women; and as an extension of that, it is a given that the creators of these characters are primarily men. Kanika Dhillon

Women Men Characters Superheroes Given More Primarily Supposed Powers Boy Narratives Than Appeal Creators Extension

In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs to be paramount. In a novel, however, we can dissect each thought and emotion and build on it. Kanika Dhillon

I joined Red Chillies entertainment right after I returned from the London School of Economics in 2007. Kanika Dhillon

Entertainment School Economics London Joined Red Returned After Right

Poetry and prose can start a revolution, break walls, and ideas can build nations. Kanika Dhillon

Walls Build Revolution Poetry Prose Ideas Nations Break Start

Telling a story is an emotional and personal experience for me and I can't do without it. Kanika Dhillon

Me Experience Telling Emotional Without Personal Personal Experience Story

If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be framed or given borders to operate in or curtail my thought process and as a writer it's not only my choice but also my need to go beyond the given framework. Kanika Dhillon

Myself Lie Will Thought Framed Framework Rules Thought Process Possibilities Borders Given Only Writer Like Beyond Also Operate Go Curtail Process Choice Inhibit Start Playing Need

Censorship, by definition, is suppression of objectionable material that can be harmful or inconvenient. Since when has it become inconvenient or dangerous for a young woman to be confused in love? Kanika Dhillon

Love Woman Confused Dangerous Censorship Become Young Harmful Definition Objectionable Since Suppression Material Young Woman Inconvenient

I have grown up on a staple diet of love stories. But, soon I realised it is not so rosy or divine. It is painful, selfish and ugly. Love is the biggest curse of this generation! Kanika Dhillon

Ambition alone cannot define a progressive female character. Kanika Dhillon

Alone Character Ambition Progressive Define Female Female Character Cannot

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