Words matter. These are the best Om Puri Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don’t make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.
I don’t expect anything from anybody. When you grow old… Your days are gone; it is part of life.
When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn’t stop her because she’s my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.
I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it’s not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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.
We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars… Without stars they cannot work.
Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West – otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.
I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.
I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.
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.
I don’t spend on expensive brands. I don’t need foreign holidays.
