Rana Daggubati

“Every story has a place where it deserves to be told.”

“In every film, you get a chance to travel down a new path.”

“I loved 'A Wednesday'; it is one of my top favourite films of all time.”

“Cinema plays an important role in uniting the entire nation as a single unit.”

“I truly believe that cinema is a collaborative effort, and as long as I get to tell, and be part of, interesting stories and work with genuine people, I don't see any project as a 'risk.'”

“I want to do films in different languages because I want to tell stories in different genres.”

“Abhimanyu Singh is a great guy to work with. He's very hard working.”

“Getting out of a character is emotionally taxing. You get used to being a person on camera, and when you move on, the character remains with you for a long time.”

“'Leader' is a political drama. It's the story of a character who understands what the people want.”

“When I watch films, I skip songs. I don't like them.”

“I don't stress too much on things, be it failure or success.”

“My only plan is to be versatile. That's how I started, and that's how I will continue.”

“When a director from Hindi cinema is looking for an actor from another language, it will be only because he feels the character justifies this and that can only be for a well-written character.”

“We see many posters and standees at cinema halls, and some catch attention. But these posters are soon forgotten. Taking a picture with the actors, enabled by AR, helps record a memory.”

“'Naa Ishtam' is my first commercial Telugu film. That was exciting.”

“If it was a risk, I wouldn't have done 'Baahubali.'”

“Thanos is undoubtedly the most powerful entity and villain the world has ever seen - he is virtually indestructible. Imagine a villain so menacing that all the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, and their allies have to come together in a hope to defeat this one guy; such characters come to you once in a lifetime!”

“If I feel like too much of a star, I can head to Chennai and be a regular guy.”

“'Baahubali' team is not after numbers. If we would have been number guys, we would have never made a film with such a huge budget. We just wanted to make the biggest war film of this country, but what it has achieved is amazing.”

“If you live the way others want you to, you are called a nice guy. If you live the way you want, you are called selfish.”