“I’m going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.”

If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

I only want to do better work. That’s the focus of my life.

Corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies.

I have had 50 drinks in one go!

Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible.

I don’t see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don’t get scared.

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.

It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.

Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.

Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

There are two types of films – one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.

By getting into distribution and production, I am actually widening my base.

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor.

Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.

He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

Love scenes are the hardest things in the world and if you enjoy them, that’s wonderful, because nobody making them sits there and goes, ‘Let’s do that again tomorrow.’

The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.

This is over 10 years in the making for me and just a dream come true. I’m the luckiest person in the world.