Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there’s no fear in what I do. I write books.
There was no fear of failure when I made ‘Bajirao Mastani.’
The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.
One of the scary things is that, when you’re a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you’re an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.
When you get older, you start to doubt, and you put limitations on yourself. But little Teyonah had no fear.
The most important thing I gave the Beatles was my friendship. They trusted me: there was no fear in being photographed.
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