Top 60 Victor Banerjee Quotes

David Lean is very, very easy to get on with.

I loved working with Ram Gopal Varma in ‘Bhoot.’ Surprisingly, he remembered my earlier performances and narrated them to me frame by frame when we met for the first time.

I had the most amazing childhood in the natural surroundings of Assam.

‘Apne’ was a disaster. Anil Sharma hired me for three months, but it took a year-and-a-half.

I don’t know if I am confident about my art, but I certainly am committed to it.

I loved Peter Sellers whenever he played an Indian.

I am quite excited to play the role of Tagore.

My connection to Dima Hasao has been very old. As a child I used to visit the place and have always been mesmerized by its breathtaking beauty.

While representing violence on screen, some directors tend to gloss over it while others glamorize it.

I don’t market myself too well. I just get odd offers once in a while.

I grew up in the North-East so identifying with mountain people – their simplicity and honesty – comes naturally to me. I even call myself an honorary Garhwali.

If you are not taught Tagore in school, your association is limited to reciting the National Anthem.

First of all, we need to condemn violence and terror without prejudice towards caste, creed or community. All citizens of all religions have been victims and perpetrators at the some time.

I am delighted that young filmmakers want me in their films. They have open minds and a fresh take on old attitudes. I derive a lot of energy from them. Most of all, I find their love and respect utterly disarming.

When I don’t have the time to be in the Himalayas, I am in Bombay, Los Angles or N.Y. or Paris or wherever.

Commercial Bengali movies are all crass imitation of Telugu and Tamil movies. There are only a handful of directors like Rituparno Ghosh, Aparna Sen and Gautam Ghose who make quality films.

The rich have lots of money. The wealthy have lots of time. I’ve done enough to have lots of time today to watch sunrises and get drenched in the rain.

My father was a tea planter and I grew up in different parts of Assam as his job took him there.

Creating one unified body in addressing the issue of disability will help the disabled.

The floors were so sparkling clean you could eat off them. But we only ate off silver. Our grapes were imported from Persia. When my mother married, 10 English sergeants guarded her gifts of jewelry.

There are quality films being made in all languages, whether in Hindi cinema, Bengali or the south. Bollywood doesn’t represent Indian cinema, per say.

You know, the last time America sensationalized an actor from India, the man died a poor, miserable soul: He was Sabu, the elephant boy. He came here and was the toast of Hollywood. And he just went back to India and died a pauper.

‘As The River Flows‘ is an important Assamese film with a message for everybody to ponder upon.

I’ve been involved with disability activities for over 40 years. I have done programs with several disabled children and involving them makes the performance genuinely heartwarming.

People believe I am selective. I am not. Directors pick me, not I them.

I have to keep the kitchen running, so I can’t stop acting in commercial films.

We Bengalis are querulous, arrogant, oversensitive and far, far too emotional. We cry too often and laugh too hard. We wave our passions like bright flags. Calcutta is our city.

Both Ram Gopal Varma and Subhash Ghai are great directors and it was a great experience working with them.

I personally think our national anthem is not patriotic enough. There is another poem by Dwijendralal Ray called ‘Dhono Dhanne Pushpe Bhora,’ which is more soul-stirring as a national anthem.

I have said a lot of ‘yeses’ to lots of first-time film-makers. Lots, lots, lots. I admire them a lot, I respect them a lot. It is of greatest pride to be working with someone‘s first film – like being given a Nobel Prize or an Oscar.

Whenever I go to deliver lectures in IAS academies, colleges and schools, I always try to bring in the northeast. It may be the bamboo of Mizoram or the various beautiful tribal cultures of Misings or Bodos.

I have always admired the Russian cinema, their incisive storytelling, sharp camera work and brilliant acting in them. Indian filmmakers can learn a lot from it.

I carry too much baggage… the baggage of David Lean, Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal.

I am a card holder of Uttarakhand. I fought for their freedom.

Democracy in a socialist country is freedom in chains.

I never watch my own films.

The worst thing is that filmmaking is an expensive medium and money corrupts cinema right at the beginning.

If ‘Passage‘ works, then maybe they will ask me to play James Bond; if not, then I will play the villain.

Age isn’t an attraction. Imagination is.

It was a wonderful childhood. They spoiled me rotten.

The Calcutta public accepted me and put me where I am. I will always be grateful to them.

With age you tend to become intolerant and it becomes difficult to give your best in trying circumstances.

I have acted in ‘Unfreedom’ and I know that I will be there in ‘Ayodhya.’

There’s no such thing as an easy role. Every part, you take it lightly and it will get screwed.

Sometimes I am surprised by the kind of roles that are offered to me.

Dr. Aziz is a very deep and meaty part, a gift part for any actor.

‘Kalyug’ and ‘A Passage to India’ did get me a lot of recognition and acclamation. But for some reason I stopped getting offers from Bollywood after that.

Everybody is a film critic today, just like everybody who has a DSLR or a mobile phone is a photographer today. But, a saturation point will come some day.

Street food has always made life and living in Calcutta so much more easy and attractive.

Bengali serials are far superior than their Mumbai counterparts.

I always like science fiction.

I got ‘Jogger’s Park’ perhaps because one fellow Bengali Sachin Bhowmick, who’s the writer of the movie, recommended my name. Then Ram Gopal Varma was kind enough to offer me a role in ‘Bhoot.’

It is pitiful working in the industry and I see the flaws all the time. Though, if I have to watch something, then I prefer either horror or comedy because I don’t know how those genres really work.

When I was a young man, it was very fashionable not to have the sacred thread ceremony, and among very respectable families, mind you. As a rebel, I decided to do it.

It’s one thing to be chosen to play Dr. Aziz, but to play Christ, which is traditionally regarded as a blond and blue-eyed part, was a great thing.

I am drawn more towards Russian films owing to their compelling camera work, because of my own inclination towards cinematography.

One of the greatest attributes most Hindus have is acceptance.

I live in Mussoorie. I love my birds and Himalayas. There is always a new mountain to climb and mountains keep coming to me.

Perhaps it is that great suffering is necessary to produce great art.

I was so happy when grown men cried watching my performance with my screen son Sanjay Suri in ‘My Brother Nikhil.’