Commercial film is a film that makes a lot of money, and I have very high hopes from 'Sonchiriya.'
I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.
When you make a film, everyone wants to define it.
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.
I signed 'Aurangzeb' because I loved the story. I thought it was an untold tale. For whatever reason, the audience did not like the film. Fair enough, but I still enjoyed the process.
When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.
If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
My fourth movie, 'PKP2,' is my biggest release and biggest success.
I don't think about how much business my films will make.
It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.
When something is not liked by people, you cannot make it run, however big actor or producer you may be. The audience has to make it a hit. The power is in the hands of the public.
People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.
No one in Hollywood really knows what a good idea is before a movie hits the screens. We only know if it's a good idea after it's done.
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.
A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker is one thing, but its interpretation by an audience is something else. I don't stop at what the filmmaker wanted to do.
When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.
You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.
You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin' the movie whenever they see it. That's what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them.
I'm an actor; I have an ego that is sometimes disproportionate to the reality of the situation.
It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.
Actors don't get to be well-known if they're horrible.
I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
