There is always something about the villains that I'm able to play, quote unquote, that isn't villainous.
Ben KingsleyI think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
Ben KingsleyThere have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
Ben KingsleyThere is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
Ben KingsleyIf one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I love to be on board. I think anything that resonates with history, as does The Jungle Book and Watership Down, reflects patterns of behavior, power struggles, deprivation, migration, survival, joy, love, betrayal, and all of these things. It's tragic that children are encouraged to ignore history. We ignore history and any literature that is historically based in history. Even though both of those films involved animals, of course they reflect human behavior.
Ben Kingsley