“There’s a lot of good talent and the audience base is bigger.”

And when it’s sold to 50 countries or whatever, for me it’s a great deal. I make movies for an audience so if that audience grows, I feel really honoured and thankful for it.

I would love to work in international movies just because the talent all around the world is great.

We always get rejections, whether it’s in love or anything in life. And then negativity tends to creep in.

Do I feel good enough? Do I feel big enough? Do I feel sexy enough?” Some days, the answer is ‘yes’ but sometimes it’s not.

Headhunters is a popcorn flick – you can laugh and shout and do whatever you want having great fun.

But at the bottom of it all there’s this theme of being honest to the people you love. I want to be that. And if Headhunters is one of the movies that help me realise that, then that’s perfect.

It’s basically how I choose movie roles. Would I like to see this movie? Is this movie important? Why would I do this? And Headhunters is a movie that I would like to see in the cinema.

Everyone of us wakes up in the morning, goes to the bathroom, looks in the mirror and asks: “Who am I? Who am I today?

But hopefully we are honest towards the people around us so that we can conquer it.

What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don’t think they’re funny and the non-lawyers don’t think they’re jokes.

Prisoners are the greatest audience that an entertainer can perform to.

I try to choose characters that don’t remind the audience of my previous roles. I make a conscious effort for that.

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn’t feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.