Quotes About Choice

I am choosy about my films, period - whether it's my father directing it or anybody else.

I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

I say yes to a film depending on who is directing it.

Given a choice, I prefer directing a play to a film.

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.

The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should be having any doubts.

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

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

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.

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 decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?

People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do.

It wasn't necessarily my choice to disappear.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

I don't discern between OTT and theatre because this is incredible work that I 'chose' to do.

I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.

I never chose to be in Russia, and I would prefer to be in my own country, but if I can't make it home, I will continue to work very much in the same way that I have... What happens to me is not as important; I simply serve as the mechanism of disclosure.

You might have a favorite band and really dislike one of the records. That's fine.

I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.

What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.

It's a very distinct difference between Romney and Obama and myself.

That's a big part of the process: making the right choice from the beginning. Not getting distracted by shiny things.