There are so many people who come to me to be an actor, but I select only those people who I feel can fit my script. If they do, I immediately say yes. I don't do screen tests. I talk to them and see how their mind functions. I read their mind and cast them.

Dev Anand

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

Energy begets energy. If you are lazy, you will always be lazy. And if you retire at 60, you will die at 65.

Dev Anand

'Hum Dono' was accepted in a very big way. It was the official entry at the 1962 Berlin Film Festival.

Dev Anand

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

Dev Anand

I am always in a rush because time is slipping away, and I am chasing it, chasing it.

Dev Anand

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.

Dev Anand

My life is the same, and I am at a beautiful stage at 88. I am as excited as I was in my 20s.

Dev Anand

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.

Dev Anand

I think an individual's mind is a marvellous thing. I truly believe that if your mind is strong, your body tries hard to keep pace with it.

Dev Anand

At one time, I have campaigned for Krishna Menon and am very friendly with Rajni Patel. However, I now feel that we need a fresh approach. This is not reviving the Swatantra Party.

Dev Anand

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.

Dev Anand

A very small proportion of the country's black money is in the movie industry. Because we are written about, public attention is focused on us. Do you think there is no black money in other businesses? With the exception of government servants and others who have tax deducted at source, there are tax evaders in every walk of life.

Dev Anand

Life is too short. I don't have time to speak slowly.

Dev Anand

Other black and white films have also been released in colour, but 'Hum Dono' is better than all of them. When you watch 'Hum Dono Rangeen,' you will feel as though it was shot in colour; you won't feel that I have got the reels painted by brush.

Dev Anand

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.

Dev Anand

No film should be meaningless.

Dev Anand

There are so many people who come to me to be an actor, but I select only those people who I feel can fit my script. If they do, I immediately say yes. I don't do screen tests. I talk to them and see how their mind functions. I read their mind and cast them.

Dev Anand

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.

Dev Anand

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.

Dev Anand

A film maker is a very intelligent man. Do not underestimate him.

Dev Anand