I made my debut on big screen, and many thanks to my mentor T. Rajendhar for introducing me to films.
My first exposure to TV, film, theater, the idea of what acting was, is I was a little kid, and my mom's best friend was a local casting director in Cambridge, Mass. Her name was Patty Collinge.
I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.
One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.
For example, how you would introduce a leading character into your film, and as an absolute ingenious example, [Elia] Kazan in his film Viva Zapata!, how he introduces his leading character Marlon Brando into the film. No film ever did it as wonderful as he did it.
To me, Satyajit Ray is just Manik da. Our relationship dates back to 1958, when he introduced me to the silver screen. I was just 13.
I was introduced to the world of films by Manoj Bajpayee and trained under theatre actor Makrand Deshpande.
It's nice to introduce Vidya Balan to the Tamil audience.
Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.
I usually like to introduce the film and the music with the opening titles. It's a great help for a composer to bring the audience into the work that we're going into.
Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.
If the titles are treated in a straightforward way, nobody is really interested. The theory is that in those two or three minutes, you can set the tone for the films, so that when the story begins the audience hits the ground running.
We put in all the great ideas that can be brought into the film [Doctor Strange] in the service of introducing the world to an audience who's never heard of it and doesn't know it from a hole in the wall. And we thought that an inter-dimensional girlfriend that's the daughter of an inter-dimensional demon-esque creature was a step too far in introducing this world.
