“The film industry does not interest me greatly. The people, I don't mi...” — Naseeruddin Shah Quote

The film industry does not interest me greatly. The people, I don't mingle with them much. I meet them when I have to.

I can say with pride that I have a brother who served with distinction in the Indian Army.

A person takes his own path. My father tried to guide me the best way he thought I should go, and it didn't work. I went the way I wanted to.

Everyone equates good cinema with boring shots and boring films - where a character takes 10 minutes to walk down a corridor, and still nothing happens at the end of the shot. Those films tried to be cool and fashionable by dispensing with drama, which, in my opinion, is absolute nonsense.

I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.

The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life.