I'll do whatever it takes for a movie. I don't really care what that is.
I like to do films that I would want to go see, basically. I'm not out to make a fast buck.
I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.
Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.
Though I was born in a cricketing family and played Under 16 and Under 19 cricket for Delhi, my heart was always in cinema. Even while I was playing cricket, I was day dreaming about how it would be to stand on a film set saying lines.
I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.
Maybe actors are more passionate about cinema than actresses. Many heroines today seem unable to look beyond glamour.
From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.
I love movies. I can't participate in my love of movie-making fully unless I'm producing it.
I had more trouble than I had a sense of utility or satisfaction. But it served to occupy me and to keep me occupied in a field that I love - which was cinema - while I was waiting to realize the film that I wanted to do, which was Once Upon a Time in America, which took ten years of thinking and working to realize.
Sometime in your teens you have to decide what you want to do. I knew it had to be cinema.
My life is about politics, a lot of about music, and a lot about things other than acting. I like traveling the world. But, what makes me want to stay in this business and keep doing this are movies when it's a true labor of love.
As the acting class was going on, I just realized I just knew more about cinema than the other people in the class. I cared about cinema and they cared about themselves. But two, was actually at a certain point I just realized that I love movies too much to simply appear in them. I wanted the movies to be my movies.
