Konkona Sen Sharma

I used to cry regularly. I felt a lot of pressure to look a certain way.

I don't like walking the ramp.

I'm not hung up on getting married.

I don't talk about my personal life to journalists.

It befuddles me why I was offered so many intense, intellectual movies when I don't take myself seriously.

'Dil Kabaddi' is an urban comedy about couples breaking up and reconciling. It's based on one of Woody Allen's movies. Can't remember which one.

Sippy Films have made some fabulous mainstream movies.

My mom single-handedly brought up two girls, although my father was also a large part of my life.

I directed 'Death in the Gunj' which released in 2017. It got very good reviews and a few awards but did not do well at the box-office. But I'm not bothered. I made the film that I wanted to make. It was not a film for everyone.

Some of them are good while some are rubbish! But I am grateful for all my films.

Falling in love has no convenient time, it can happen anytime and anywhere.

I do yoga; have been doing it for a long time now.

Your body is not your own when you are acting in a film. It becomes your character's body. Everyone sees you like that and builds up perceptions of you that have nothing to do with you.

It seems quite unlikely that I'll make a masala film.

Acting has not been a smooth sailing journey.

I never wanted to be an actor. Till my third film, I didn't imagine that I would continue acting. I didn't like it at all. It was only after three films that I became comfortable with acting.

You become more understanding once you become a mom.

Motherhood is exhausting, but you get to know the deeper ramifications of it as you go along.

Although several actors have worked in films down South, I feel unsure of whether I will be able to emote and act as exuberantly as I do in Hindi and Bengali films.

I am very comfortable doing Bengali films because it's my mother tongue, which enables me to emote well, and my home is there too.

Usually working in a film does not affect my personal life in any way, thankfully!

Working with my mother is unlike working with any other director.

It is true that there are some surface similarities between my mother and Mrinalini's character since both were successful commercial actresses in the 1970s in Bengali cinema. In that sense I have taken cues from my mother about how to portray the younger Mrinalini.

I would like to act in a film that I can watch even after five years without getting bored.

It doesn't matter what people think about me on screen. I will take up and do role which excite me and are interesting.

Motherhood has been a wonderful experience! It's a tough job as you are responsible for a human being, not just for their physical well-being and safety, but also their mental upbringing and formation of personality in some ways.

I think the kind of person I am, and the kind of upbringing I have had, I have my mother's aesthetic. So my choice of films will largely reflect that.

If I love the script and have a good rapport with the director, then first-time director can also be very special.

Kalki Koechlin and I were suppose to do a film together but it got shelved due to lack of funds.

Every community is important in its own way and every community has its place within our country. But there is some integration between communities, that is a beautiful thing.

I am very against this love jihad law. I feel it's an unconstitutional law because in our country, in this democracy, we have the right... we are granted religious freedom. So, if you are saying that women can vote, then it follows naturally that women can also choose their own partners and women can choose their own fate.

It is quite hard to be a working mother. At the same time, it is hugely rewarding. I have learnt to appreciate working mothers everywhere because millions of women are doing that, including my maid.

I get roles where I'm the activist type or I'm always morally upright.

Those of us who live in Mumbai or Delhi have notions about what women who live in Bhopal, or smaller towns, are like; and that perception is wrong. Some people are scared by how complex and subversive these women's lives can be.

I know that my worldview is not a majoritarian one, that it's not a popular way of thinking.

'A Death in the Gunj' is set in 1979 and we had to mute a joke that referred to Indira Gandhi. The censors also wouldn't allow the tortoise that some of the characters talk about to be called Kalidas because it's the name of a respected poet.

'Wake Up Sid' was a very special script. It was director Ayan Mukherjee's first film and it was beautifully written.

Personally, my favorite character onscreen was in the film '15 Park Avenue' where I played a schizophrenic.

I don't like discussing about my personal life in front of everyone.

Irrfan is a very normal, laidback, regular guy. It has always been a pleasure and great fun working with him.

I have to please me, personal foremost, I have to do work that I find interesting, that pleases me, by and large.

I don't like this word, 'Feminazis,' or 'libtard.' I don't like these words, because I feel there's no true understanding of the word 'feminism,' there's no understanding of the word 'liberal,' and I find these very derogatory and insulting.

I like my role in 'Akira,' which is a remake of a south Indian film. I play the role of a pregnant cop like the original. So, since it's the role of a pregnant cop, luckily I didn't have to do any stunts.

I am the kind of person if I like something I will wear it till I get bored.

Like any normal person, sometimes I like to dress up and sometimes I don't.

Whenever I get time to myself, I travel, watch films, hang out with friends.

As soon as a good script comes my way, I waste no time in signing a project.

As long as I like the script, speak the language and feel interested in the plot, I can play any role.

Acting in 'Mr. And Mrs. Iyer' was a unique experience. It was the first time that my mother was directing me in a lead role.

'A Death in the Gunj' is slightly off-beat in part, not financially lucrative as one would want. But that is a conscious choice that I have made.