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You're not a star until you love yourself. Directors, yeah, they've got to love their own philosophies. But actors have to really love themselves.

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Great actors are people who just meld into the part without calling attention to the fact that they are so-and-so doing this part. They may never become huge stars, but will always, in memory, stay respected actors.

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My own feelings of where I am in this world and the questions that I am asking myself, I started to explore them through the story 'Four Feathers' and through this actor called Heath Ledger. I knew that I had to find a 21-year-old who could play wisdom at the end. He's only 21 or 22, and I tested him.

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I gave up the idea of having a career when I was 24. Sounds glamorous, but I've been doing things since then, and part of those adventures was to make films because I realised I was actually quite good at it and I enjoyed it.

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India was formed on the idea 'Let's get the British out.'

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It is interesting that Nehru fought and kept saying that if you break India into languages, there is no end to it.

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Filmmaking is a great adventure. I'm as excited as a kid to be given tickets to fly suddenly to England, South Africa, America, everywhere. I'm still a 13-year-old kid, flying.

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As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

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Heath Ledger is someone I know and would like to do a film with.

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There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Actor

Born: December 6th, 1945

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