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A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

Irrfan Khan

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
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Audience Change Cinema Demand Week
A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
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Myself Nation Talent Utilization
Sometimes when you’re playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That’s much more interesting to me, rather than just playing ‘intense.’ I find it too boring.
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Boredom Character Disturb Finding Intense Myself Play Time
When you come out of the theatre and you don’t even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
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Disappoint Movie Myself Remember Talk Theatre
I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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Hollywood Myself Offering Special
You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it’s not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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Investment Market Money Power Reduction Share Story Yourself
For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That’s a feeling I always have when I’m auditioning.
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Act Audition Feeling Mindset Myself Naked People
Language does not make one an elite.
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Elite Language
The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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Acceptance Goodness Sign Society
I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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Entertainment Myself People Substance
What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
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Character Creativity Exploration Mental Role State Trick Yourself
I can’t think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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Connection Movie Myself Pathetic Prayer Situation Thinking
I’ve played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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Character Consume Myself Play
Hollywood isn’t ready for an Indian leading man.
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Hollywood Leadership Man
Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you’re lacking inside, you’ve fulfilled that.
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Famous Fulfill Reassurance Yourself
I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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Cinema Commercial Myself Ready

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