I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.

It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.