The measure of a great writer is not how many weeks his books spend on the best-seller lists, but how many years his books remain in print after his death.
I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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 want to entertain people, but with some substance.
Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.
Language does not make one an elite.
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.
Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.
Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.
Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.
That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.