“I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.”

No one can guarantee success of a film.

Tone matters more than words.

Learning should never stop.

Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I’m not.

I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before ‘Queen,’ but now things have changed a lot.

I write poems, I meditate. I don’t live up to people’s expectations. I don’t do the conventional cool things – I know I am the coolest person.

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren’t too supportive of my career choices.

Many people are insecure of many people.

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.

Money can’t buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.

It is important to give talent their due. And if celebrities are struggling with personal and mental health issues, the media should try and emphasize with them, rather than making it difficult for them.

I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.

Nature has a way of healing us and everything has a silver lining, we need to look for it!

Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

We have to stretch out the audience. It can’t be this narrow – we have to stretch out the point of view.

What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.

As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.