Sometimes being an actor is like being some kind of detective where you're on the search for a secret that will unlock the character.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.

— Abhijit Naskar

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

— Abhijit Naskar

The characters so many Bollywood actresses portray are ultimately flat, uncomplicated, two-dimensional stock characters that typically range between the girl-next-door and the diva. They may be flawed in small ways, but ultimately lack nuance, conform to and reinforce cultural expectations of a wholesome but ultimately submissive Indian women. The likability of these flat and boring characters hold the actresses' off-screen reputations in good stead but reinforce the very norms that imprison and render so many Indian women vulnerable to disrespect and sexism.

— Sharanya Haridas

The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and thought I was going to faint. The second time I had a bit more control but was still giddy with excitement. And the third time I was an emotional wreck. I had to really try hard not to cry.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

The most talented people are always the nicest.

— James Caan

The simple act of caring is heroic.

— Edward Albert

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The thing is', (Rufus) Stone said, 'that if you don't believe that you are an old man, or a woman, or a tramp, then how can you expect anyone else to believe you? Looking the part is just the surface; being the part is the true disguise.

— Andy Lane

Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.

— Abhijit Naskar