“Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood”

“You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.”