Pankaj Kapur

I did drama school in Delhi. I am glad I studied in a school where cultural activities were significant.

My children can do what they want to do.

There have been actors who have been extremely successful by doing just about everything that came their way. But I do what I like doing and give it a certain time.

I feel you need to treat children as equals instead of giving them a complex - you are young, you are small, you don't know.'

I don't think that a film that has children in it necessarily needs to be a children's film.

I have loved playing every character that I essayed.

When you ask me why I do one film a year, it is not my fault. I've chosen what I liked from whatever work came my way.

Creativity should be balanced with commercial interests.

I am a father who never pushes or forces his children into anything.

The least anyone can do is pay attention to their parents and people who are elder to them.

We've not given any attention to the people in their 50s and 60s, who need attention, education and engagement, in terms of the society and in terms of their identity as human beings.

As an actor, my desire was always to be different, there was a desire to associate yourself with projects that bring about the contemporary situation.

Women do have better roles to play, more characters are being written. For instance, Surpriya Pathak's character in 'Ram Leela' or Neena Gupta's part in 'Badhaai Ho'.'

I wanted to understand the whole medium and that is when I decided to do television. Once I thought that, I was confident about making a film.

Back in the 1990s, I had an opportunity to make a film. But I realized that it is better for me to go in stages so I could explore myself as an actor and in the process I started writing scripts.

I don't have any single character that is my favorite because I would like to be known for the sum total of my work and not for an individual character that I might have played.

I enjoy playing different kind of people.

There are millions of people in the world, I have only played a few of them.

We have had examples in our industry of people working for 30-40 years because of their ability to act. Your looks leave you after a point, you don't look the same way you did when you were in your 20s or 30s. After that you have only your ability to show.

When an actor gets an opportunity to do things, only then can he prove his mettle.