Sharmila Tagore Quotes

For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Sundance took me on my first film and from there sort of launched my career.

I came into films with 'Hare Rama Hare Krishna.' My first film was actually 'Hulchul,' but it was released after 'HRHK.'

For any actor, being part of a Mani Ratnam film is a great experience. I grew up watching his films.

When I became a choreographer, I was not assisting any choreographer. I was assisting the director Mansoor Ali Khan for 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar.' I was the fourth assistant director.

I would have loved to work with Satyajit Ray.

In India, film sets are like a family atmosphere.

I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.

How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.

I was editing for Kunal Kapoor when I got my first film 'Jaan Tere Naam' as lead actor.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work.

My first movie ever was 'Breaking Away.' I stumbled into an incredible part in a movie that was incredible to be a part of. Peter Yates, the director, became a lifelong friend. He sort of plucked me from obscurity and gave me a life.

Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular.

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

I want to produce and direct and write one day.

I couldn't get a job to save my life. That's why I wrote 'Road to Paloma.' That got into Sundance and got into that scene, and that's how I got the role in 'The Red Road.'

I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.

I got my first film break because the director Karel Reisz saw me at a small theater party.

'Naked' kind of kicked me off into the film world. It just so happens that all of the things that I have been offered have been films, and I've enjoyed the travel that goes along with that.

I definitely want to work in Hindi films.