Quotes About Family

My father is the son of a farmer so its a little difficult for me to make him understand the fashion and the film industry.

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

My parents are in the business - they're actors - so I kind of grew up on a film set, which was a funny place to grow up.

Though I was born in a cricketing family and played Under 16 and Under 19 cricket for Delhi, my heart was always in cinema. Even while I was playing cricket, I was day dreaming about how it would be to stand on a film set saying lines.

To be home for story time is brilliant. Even if after 14 hours of filming you're exhausted and just want to fall into bed.

It's one of those things where we generally love filming 'Miz and Mrs.'

I was all of 18, and in love with Shammi Kapoor while we were filming 'Brahmachari.' He wanted me to give up my career, but I wasn't ready. I had my family to look after.

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

There was nobody in my family who knew anything about the film industry. I'm from the west of Scotland. It's not exactly a mecca for filmmaking. I think I saw Rab C. Nesbitt in Asda once, but that was about it.

That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.

But I kind of reframed my thinking, where I don't feel like filmmaking is what defines me anymore. Like, I feel like I'm much more defined by my family and other things in life that, that I feel are much deeper to me.

My mom, who was a constant fixture at work with me until I was 18 years old, did an amazing job filtering out all the things a kid didn't need to see or hear on film sets. So, acting was just a fun, breezy, extracurricular activity for me.

For any dad who has two footballing sons, to have them in a semi-final and know that at least one will reach the final is the best present in the world.

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.

The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.

Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are.

I know I wouldn't have made the callback for 'Ma' if my father's house had not burned down because I would have been in finals. My teachers would not have been chill with me leaving in the middle of my Medieval Magic final.

I ended up moving to Dubai and going into finance after college because of family pressure. I was trying to love it, but I just didn't.

My older son works in finance and private equity, which he loves, and Lucas works in film and theater.

Sometimes I feel like I need to work, work, work to make sure that I put up enough money for the kids and make sure I secure finances so that we can be safe.