The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people..

I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible..

I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling..

There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream..

I am not born to make dreamy movies..

Politicians need a film appreciation course..

I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list..

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make..

Kalki is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I am madly in love with her..

'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences..

If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified..

I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room..

I think the Internet has changed the world..

I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards..

When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time ideali….

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage..

I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films..

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days..

It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema..

Films are like oxygen for me..

For me, any kind of thing that has stood for 100 years tells me of the health of that thing. So, cinema completing a hundred years in India just says….