Quotes from Konkona Sen Sharma

Some of them are good while some are rubbish! But I am grateful for all my films.

Personally, my favorite character onscreen was in the film '15 Park Avenue' where I played a schizophrenic.

I am very against this love jihad law. I feel it's an unconstitutional law because in our country, in this democracy, we have the right... we are granted religious freedom. So, if you are saying that women can vote, then it follows naturally that women can also choose their own partners and women can choose their own fate.

So I never wanted to be an actor anyway, so I only do the films which appeal to me and my sensibility.

Which actress wouldn't want to work with Vishal Bharadwaj? I have worked with him before and I really like his sensibility.

'Wake Up Sid' was a very special script. It was director Ayan Mukherjee's first film and it was beautifully written.

Your body is not your own when you are acting in a film. It becomes your character's body. Everyone sees you like that and builds up perceptions of you that have nothing to do with you.

We have done 'Talvar' in three different parts, recreating three different scenarios. And so, it was very interesting for me as a performer to be a part of this film.

Yes, I did have occasional scripts like a 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' or a 'Talwaar' that nurtured the performer in me, but I do wish there were more options.

I don't like walking the ramp.

I am happy to do a film in Bengali language as I know and love that language.

I would like to act in a film that I can watch even after five years without getting bored.

I do get offered all kind of films by and large, but the bulk of it I may say is of a certain sensibility.

I don't like discussing about my personal life in front of everyone.

I don't talk about my personal life to journalists.

Of course, I am choosy because I want to do good cinema.

It is true that there are some surface similarities between my mother and Mrinalini's character since both were successful commercial actresses in the 1970s in Bengali cinema. In that sense I have taken cues from my mother about how to portray the younger Mrinalini.

I think the female gaze is important because we cannot have just one perspective on anything.

I have never been a mass appeal kind of an actor, so I don't have to worry. I don't have to please everyone.

I have to please me, personal foremost, I have to do work that I find interesting, that pleases me, by and large.

As long as I like the script, speak the language and feel interested in the plot, I can play any role.

I had a baby and that is pretty time consuming.

I'm very serious about my career. If someone feels that I carry a serious heroine tag, so be it.

Unless I think I can manage to make something decent, I won't.