Dec 27, 2009

Conversations with Javed Akhtar

1. If you admire somebody from a distance, you make an image of him or her and you fall in love with that image and soon you are no longer in love with that person, you are in love with the image that you've created. And that image is the extension of your own fantasies, so that image is finally you. It's a kind of self-love. You forget that person and get very upset if that person doesn't match up to your fantasy. If you're grown up, mature, objective, you have to understand that people are not your fantasy.

2. We might believe we do things on the spur of the moment, but unconsciously we're preparing ourselves for the future.


ps: Read in a book called Talking Films: Conversations on Hindi Cinema with Javed Akhtar

2 comments:

Rhiannon Rhythm said...

Yup, and the image is nothing but our deepest longings, desires that we somehow want them to have colors and be tangible! :)

deep said...

...but it always remains a wish to be objective..we can't stop ourselves from falling in love with those images..