The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
I want to entertain people, but with some 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.
I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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.
I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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.
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.
A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.
I've realized that my... let me call it 'destiny' or some force that has pushed me to identify looking for your comfort zone as a kind of limitation. And everybody has a tendency to fall into the comfort zone. I did that in the early stage of my career.
We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.
Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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.
I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
I cannot live anywhere else except India.
A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
