Quotes About Career

After directing 'Sanam Re,' I was contemplating what to do - direct or act. I got really good opportunities of direction but I felt that if I have to act then I should do it now.

I fell out of love with acting and in love with directing.

I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

A lot of what's happened with my career has been because of the Internet. It's a way for me to reach fans directly, especially with music.

I never wanted to be a director.

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.

I am blessed to have got a chance to work with directors like Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bhardwaj, and Nikhil Advani at such an early age.

I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.

I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.

I've seen new actresses do one show and disappear or struggle for years to get their next break. I've been fortunate enough to have four shows back-to-back as lead.

People tend to disappear from showbiz because they cant wait between two projects, which often takes a lot of time.

I'm waiting for better scripts to come my way, especially because I'm aware that there are people who are waiting to see me come back; and I don't want to disappoint them.

I like to keep my expectations low and my aspirations high in my career and my life. That way I'm pleasantly surprised more often than desperately disappointed.

When I was young, I was like, 'I want to want to work with this director and that director'. I've stopped doing that. You put yourself in a place where you get disappointed.

I know the audience wants to see me without clothes in my coming films. At the risk of disappointing them, let me say that it's simply not going to happen. I will not do any such film.

It would be a disappointment for me to take a job, as often happens, having to shoot out-of-town and not where I live.

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

If you want to say I was a disaster of a player, then say it. But give me another disaster of a player who played almost 500 games across 14 years.

Churchill's career was littered with oratorical disasters when he misjudged the audience.