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“I think I needed to move on from Bengal.”
“I don't market myself too well. I just get odd offers once in a while.”
“I grew up in the North-East so identifying with mountain people - their simplicity and honesty - comes naturally to me. I even call myself an honorary Garhwali.”
“It was a wonderful childhood. They spoiled me rotten.”
“You know, the last time America sensationalized an actor from India, the man died a poor, miserable soul: He was Sabu, the elephant boy. He came here and was the toast of Hollywood. And he just went back to India and died a pauper.”
“I think Rajinikanth is the biggest Indian star. While others do facelifts and wear wigs, he gets paid three times more than any Bollywood star and even gives interviews where he is bald!”
“With age you tend to become intolerant and it becomes difficult to give your best in trying circumstances.”
“While representing violence on screen, some directors tend to gloss over it while others glamorize it.”
“If you watch some movies, it would appear that India has free gun license like the U.S.”
“My wife Maya Bhate is from Pune. My daughters Diya and Keya, and I, are regular visitors to the city, since her family is based here.”
“Everybody is a film critic today, just like everybody who has a DSLR or a mobile phone is a photographer today. But, a saturation point will come some day.”
“Perhaps it is that great suffering is necessary to produce great art.”
“We all mouth the fact that material possessions don't make you happy but we still pursue them.”
“The worst thing is that filmmaking is an expensive medium and money corrupts cinema right at the beginning.”
“Street food has always made life and living in Calcutta so much more easy and attractive.”
“Playing an Anglo Indian was very easy for me because I have grown up in Kolkata, and I have many Anglo Indian friends.”
“I never watch my own films.”
“I had the most amazing childhood in the natural surroundings of Assam.”
“Whenever I go to deliver lectures in IAS academies, colleges and schools, I always try to bring in the northeast. It may be the bamboo of Mizoram or the various beautiful tribal cultures of Misings or Bodos.”
“I have said a lot of 'yeses' to lots of first-time film-makers. Lots, lots, lots. I admire them a lot, I respect them a lot. It is of greatest pride to be working with someone's first film - like being given a Nobel Prize or an Oscar.”