I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.

I always had an actor within me.

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

I am not a Damsel In Distress who needs a Prince Charming. I am more of Rani Laxmi Bai who rides a Sturdy Horse.

The sacred soul delivers the message of life.

The definition of hell is two people in a relationship that is starved for love and unable to fulfill that need.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.

I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style.

Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it.

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.