“A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.”

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

Language does not make one an elite.

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.

The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

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.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

I don’t want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

It’s always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

Hollywood isn’t ready for an Indian leading man.

I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

When you come out of the theatre and you don’t even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.

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.

I’m trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.

The spirit for me is the eternal self. And when one incarnates, an aspect comes with that incarnation, that’s called the soul. And together the mind, the emotional body, and the soul form the energy field that lives within this thing called the human body.

I’m not terribly sentimental.

The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.

I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn’t talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten.

From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.