Lavrenti Lopes

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.