Indian - Actor | September 26, 1923 - December 3, 2011
If you are a creative person, then your mind gets sharper with age. My mind is very sharp, and I am happy for that.
Dev Anand
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Life is too short. I don't have time to speak slowly.
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I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.
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You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.
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Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.
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I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.
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If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.
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It's an institution that was born with my brother Chetan and me. I did it for him. I was becoming a big star in the late 1940s, and he needed a company to make films. So when he left Navketan, I brought in Goldie, and when Goldie left, I carried on alone. No book on Indian cinema is complete without mention of Navketan.
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Somebody came up with the idea of a double role, and I think 'Hum Dono' gave me a great double role - I played Captain Anand and Major Verma, the 'haw-haw' type of major.
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'Hum Dono' was accepted in a very big way. It was the official entry at the 1962 Berlin Film Festival.
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No film should be meaningless.
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People have always complained that we have made films ahead of times. 'Hum Dono' is still modern. We had wars then, and we have wars today. We had love and separation then, and we have that today.
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