“I grew up on the commercial film format. I have grown up all my life w...” — Mani Ratnam Quote

I grew up on the commercial film format. I have grown up all my life watching films and they have all been mainstream commercial cinema.

With each film, you are still trying to get the length and measure right. And failure is all about others' perception of you. When you have one success, they think you know it all. But if you fail, they think they know it all.

Once the film is released, once my job is over, I can't see the film again.

Sometimes in a large family, you get taken to a movie and there just isn't enough space or not enough tickets and you get left out. Those are the movies you remember because you never got to see them!

I work 'cause I have to pay the bills. But I also work 'cause I love it. I don't know what I'd do with me if I didn't have this work. It's what I've done all my life. It's my motivation. It's my satisfaction. It's my joy to stand in front of an audience to sing, to come back home and write songs. Man, it's amazing for me.

There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.

I have wondered about time all my life.

I've watched Barcelona all my life.

I've sung other people's music all my life.