Movie Quotes

I think quite often when you have a hell of a lot more money and time, as you very much do on a big studio film, you don’t necessarily have to make the decisions right there. You can always goback and reshoot it.

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

One thing you have to have when you act is energy.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

I’m the type who’d rather not work than work on something I’m not into. I’ve done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.

Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

I’ve been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I’m forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

I know film industry is not a very healthy place to be in.