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As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't. ”
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. ”
For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories. ”
I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life. ”
One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father. ”
There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line; there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that. ”
I know I should have never got into politics. And I've learned my lesson. No more politics. ”
These are rare moments in an actor's life, where you're put in an environment which is so natural, and you get natural performances. ”
I'm very fortunate to have spent so much time in the industry and to have lived through several generations of filmmakers, actors and technicians. There's a huge volume of experience seeing people change and seeing content change. ”
Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and morally. Many things happen, and cinema, in a sense, reflects what's happening in the world. ”