I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor.
Bruce Dern was fascinating. He's an amazing character. If you put him in a room at a table, you will sit there for the next five days and listen to everything he has to say and be fascinated by it. He's great.
Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
My whole thing, my priority, is my family, my kids, and my wife. That's my future. I don't really care about what role is next.
Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.
I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.
The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.
If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata's largest slum.
