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From playwrights I had never heard of and performance forms I had never seen to sculpture and painting, I gained immense experience as an actor in National School of Drama (NSD). I discovered what discipline and good taste in the theatre means.
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Nowhere else, perhaps, is the Quran recited so much and understood so little as in India.
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Granted, patriotism is not a tonic that can be forced down people's throats.
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Undeniable though it is that many Indian Muslims misguidedly consider Pakistan their haven, the immeasurably greater number who take intense pride in being Indian and who connect deeply with the country are hurt and angered at our patriotism being under scrutiny.
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Sometimes, more money is spent on promotion of a film than the making of it. I don't understand that logic. The movie should run on its merit.
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I don't want any memorials or a grave which my children would have to look after or feel guilty about. I don't want to leave any trace except for the work I have done.
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Any youngster who comes to me and says he wants to act, I tell him to complete his education first because, for too long, uneducated actors have ruled the roost in the acting world.
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Acting is no longer a taboo. The stigma has gone because people have realised that it's a perfectly valid career choice.
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When I was 14 and went on the stage for the first time, it stimulated me so much that I was convinced that I didn't want to do anything else.
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I'm not a political person; I'm not an activist. I'm not a guy with strong beliefs about anything. I have nothing to say to the world.
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I don't think anybody becomes an actor to serve theatre or to serve art anywhere. We all become actors because we are insecure people who want to be looked at. That was the reason I became an actor.
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A family business in cinema is not necessarily creative. It is generally about prolonging your family fortune.
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I was never turned down because I was a Muslim. I was turned down because I was not right for the part.
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I'm not trying to prove myself a great filmmaker. I don't know much about filmmaking anyway. I'm trying my hand at it to see if I'm any good.
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It is very tough to make a short film. It's like writing a short story, which is tougher than writing a novel. You can't afford to faff around; you can't indulge. You have to get to the point.
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Everyone equates good cinema with boring shots and boring films - where a character takes 10 minutes to walk down a corridor, and still nothing happens at the end of the shot. Those films tried to be cool and fashionable by dispensing with drama, which, in my opinion, is absolute nonsense.
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You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.
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A lot of scripts are written with an eye on what will be popular or what will titillate or what this actor can do well. I don't think those kinds of scripts ever work.
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When my bank balance runs low, then I sign a big Bollywood monstrous movie, and I make sure that I am safe for the next few years.
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To me, the most important elements in a theatre are the actors and the texts.
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The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.
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As an actor, you have got to learn your job as thoroughly as you can. If you know your job, then there's nothing that can stop you. Because the bottom line is that only good actors will get work.
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I realise that I have made quite a few of the same mistakes with my kids that my dad made: not so much in trying to determine their lives for them but in terms of trying to discipline them.
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My relationship with my father still troubles me because it never got resolved, and there was no closure. There was a lot of bitterness, but having written about it, I found that I was able to overcome that bitterness and look at the relationship anew.
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There's so much hocus-pocus about acting styles; there's too much mysticism attached to it. But it's a craft like any other - it's something you have to work hard at.
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The ballooning budgets of Bollywood are getting out of hand, and it's important for people to realise that you don't need Rs 20 crore to make a good, commercially viable film.
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When I first dreamt of becoming a movie star, I wanted to be a Gary Cooper: I wanted to be rich and famous, living in palaces and wearing dark glasses and white suits.
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Actors have to learn that they are as important to a movie as the camera is, as important as the sound is, and less important than the script is.
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I think our cinema has stayed in its adolescent stage largely because of our obsession with and our dependence upon stars to make our movies. The stars, being only too human, realise that this is the case, and so they milk it for whatever it's worth, and who can blame them?
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If I criticize my country, it is indeed very painful for me. It doesn't make me happy. But, if I see something wrong, it becomes my duty to speak up.
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It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's an advantage.
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No actor can give his best performance without the help of the director.
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It would be impossible to find an actor to portray Om Puri, so I wouldn't even attempt it.
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I don't look at my work as an avenue for generating more work. For me, my work itself is sufficient.
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I don't take reviews seriously. I don't even read them. Who is this person blasting forth his opinion? What's his worth, and how different is he from any man on the street?
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In theatre, there is a unique feeling of everyone working as a team, which you never get in films.
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