Ram Gopal Varma Question And Answers #36
351. Do you read philosophy?
What are your preferences?
Ans: I was very influenced by Marxism in my early days till I discovered
Ayn Rand. But the fact that one reading of Fountainhead could destroy years of
my belief in communism drove home a point to me that when you believe in
something or agree, it’s only valid till you hear something else which could
undermine what you believed until then. So I went on to read Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer
and Friedrich Nietzsche among others. Finally after the entire exercise,
Nietzsche in terms of his intensity of thought and belief, and Ayn Rand in
terms of logic and rationality stayed with me.
The sum learning of mine of applied philosophy is best quoted in this line
from Ayan Rand’s “The Romantic Manifesto” – “The pursuit of truth is not
important. What is important is the pursuit of that truth which helps you in
reaching your goal”, that is of course provided if you have a goal in the first
place to start with. Most of us don’t have a goal. We wish for things but we
rarely will ourselves to achieve them.
The German philosopher Schopenhauer in his book “The World As Will and
Idea” said “you see with your eyes, you hear with your ears, you feel with a
touch, and all these senses are nothing but functions of your mind which is
nothing but a thought which is an idea.” So the fact you are reading this blog
and interacting with me or doing anything with anybody or anything else could
be just a figment of your imagination. Thereby if you close your eyes and go to
sleep, I and they and everything in the world cease to exist. And when you open
your eyes in the morning the world comes back to you and this is the truth for
not only you but every living being, and it comes back in different shapes,
forms and emotional states for each and every life form on the planet.
Applying this theory of Schopenhauer, I identified a world of my own which
is filled with my kind of music, my kind of films, my kind of people,
gangsters, ghosts, girls with sexy bums etc. If anybody chooses to visit it,
they might like some, dislike some or completely reject. It’s their choice, but
I surely am not going to leave my world until I leave this world.
352. Can you differentiate between
making love, fucking and having sex?
Ans: Making love is an emotional experience which makes you feel a high
about your love and yourself. Fucking is an intense experience which borders on
a feeling of wanting to conquer or achieve. And having sex is a necessity like
to sneeze or to cough.
353. For what part of life
do you do things you decide and what part does life decide for you?
Ans: My life only belongs to things that I decide because even if life
decides some things for me, I immediately decide something else on top of
life’s decisions so that they again become my decisions. The bottom line is
that, I don’t listen to life.
354. Why are you using such
derogatory language and calling it a metaphor?
Ans: This blog is meant for evolved people and people who understand
metaphor. If you don’t qualify, do yourself a favour and don’t come back into
this space.
355. All your leading ladies
got similar personalities.
Ans: That’s the way I like my women, buddy.
356. What is wrong with
Fellini’s films?
Ans: I have no idea who he is?
357. Relationships are just
love and not need. Your mother won’t love you for need.
Ans: For your information my mother gave up on me when I was in the 5th
standard. And just in case, if you start off on a psycho analytical trip on
that be informed that I hate friends, mother’s love, dogs, kids and flowers.
Friends because I don’t need them, and mother’s love because I hate being
fawned, dogs and kids because they take away attention from me and flowers
because they remind me that keep forgetting to get them for my girl friend. And
hello just in case you are about to hire a battery of psychiatrists realize
that the whole above thing is just half a joke. Just try and figure out which
half.
358. Please be humble to the
audience because without them you are nothing.
Ans: Ok Guruji, why stop at just being humble. For my next film I will
build a temple for them and pray to them. Will you please become my pujari?
359. Why was the camera
lingering for so long on Hanuman’s poster in Phoonk?
Ans: Maybe they were lovers in their past birth.
360. Do you even think of
social problems like poverty, communalism, alcoholism, drug abuse, pollution,
etc and what would you do about it?
Ans: No. Nothing.