[Talkies] are spoiling the oldest art in the world - the art of pantomime. They are ruining the great beauty of silence.

Jeetendra, Sridevi, what kind of film and what kind of music do you expect with these ingredients? The industry is full of shopkeepers who're out to make money - not art.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Pantomime has always been the universal means of communication. It existed as the universal tool long before language was born. Pantomime serves well where languages are in the conflict of a common ignorance.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.