Benegal's Quotes

#1. I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.

Boman Irani

#2. Success demands a price that only a few are willing to pay ... blood, flesh, time, money, pride, heartbreak and energy. Anyone who has ever succeeded has the battle scars to prove the sacrifices they've made.

Toni Sorenson

#3. I don't go out of my way to be outrageous, I just go out of my way to look at things.

Dave Allen

#4. My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

Evelyn Waugh

#5. Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

Edward T. Hall

#6. 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.

Om Puri

#7. It's like there's this knowledge hanging in the air that one person has more power than the other, and we're supposed to pretend everything is nice and normal and equal, but in reality, luck or chance has showered benefits on one person that the other person couldn't dream of.

Sara Benincasa