Women directors in India have mostly made niche films. Naturally, those films have a limited market.

My experience in Bollywood has been this: You work hard, you deliver, and nobody finds fault with you.

You are punished only when you are not performing as per expectation, and not because you belong to a particular religion, caste, or creed. Here, you fail because your vision is not right or you have not worked hard. That's why I believe we have true democracy in the film industry. How I wish the rest of the country was like the industry!

Luckily, filmmaking is not a nine-to-five job.

I don't neglect my kids. They are my priority. They come on shoots.

I am not an actress.

Later in life there should not be any regrets. Sometimes you have children too early and regret it, ‘If I wouldn't have, my career would have been different' and sometimes when you don't have, you miss that opportunity.

Even as one of the best choreographers in the country, I was criticised for a lot of things I have done in life.

Whenever I visit abroad, people recognise me - it feels great.

People don't wish to watch masala films of the '50s any more. Audiences do not want loud films at all. They are watching Netflix and Amazon that have fresh ideas.

Web series are the future.

I never imagined myself making these big movies and being married and having kids.

I think it is important to enjoy your work.

People tend to take themselves too seriously.

You get paid what you deserve, according to the money that your movie generates. I get much more than a lot of male directors and I also get less than some. But I get paid what I deserve and what I ask for.

I would never want to do a content-driven film with a box office life of Rs 20 crore.

I would say that all my films have more content than a ‘content-driven film.' It is not easy to make such films.

You can only make the film that's in you.

We have music playing at home, day and night.

Filmmaking is all about people management.

The most creative director I have worked with is Mani Ratnam.

When I became a choreographer, I was not assisting any choreographer. I was assisting the director Mansoor Ali Khan for 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar.' I was the fourth assistant director.

I always feel your movie will be as strong as your weakest link.

I always say that I'm a filmmaker, not a factory. I don't have to churn out films every six months.

After 'Main Hoon Na,' I got married; so I took some time off.

It takes two years to make a good film.

I've always been told that because of 'Main Hoon Na,' a lot of female filmmakers have come up but I maintain that direction is a ‘genderless' job.

Every person on Twitter is a critic. Every person who watches a movie will write a blog or a review. You can't go out trying to impress these people.

I can take stress on myself but I don't like it when stress comes to my husband or children.

When I meet parents in my children's school, they say there aren't good films for kids to watch. I wonder about the lack of such films too. What do my kids watch?

One should be able to take the whole family along to watch a film.

When I make a movie, I don't do any shows because the focus is completely on the film but when I take up a show, it's an absolute relief!

When I am making a movie, I am very casual; wearing chappals, and have my hair tied. However, when I am judging a show, I take care of myself and get the makeup and hair done.

I am happy judging shows and making films. It is a good thing to do a film and then take up a show, considering it also keeps your popularity alive.

It is more difficult to make film which does not have a big name. People start questioning the cast and the budget.

Parenting three children at the same time has helped me grow as a filmmaker. It taught me to be more empathetic and understand what people want from me.

I will only do something if it has credibility for me, and that includes the films I make, the TV shows I judge and ad-campaigns I sign up for.

I prefer doing work that projects me as a woman and a mother.

For the audience, actors carry out specific roles of men and women through the character that they play out on screen. The director on the other hand is not doing a gender-specific job. So, it is irrelevant if the person who makes a particular film is a man or a woman.

Movie theatre gives a soulful experience.

I feel 95 per cent of Indian boys are mama's boys and a few of them couldn't come out of their mother's shadows. Salman Khan is one of them. I feel one of the reasons he is unable to find a soul mate is he looks for his mother in every girl.

I always wanted to make cinema which will entertain the masses, cinema that could be called escapist but is mounted on a realistic scale with high production values.

I don't think there is anything new left for me in choreography.

‘Main Hoon Na' will always be special since it was my first film but in my subsequent films, I was trying to show off with gimmicks that didn't aid the narrative in any way.

A part of 'Happy New Year' is inspired by western pop culture, the pop music videos of Michael Jackson, Madonna and Duran Duran in the '80s.

I'm happy directing films. On television, the direction takes your entire life away.

At least in films you will go, you shoot for four to five months and then you can take a break. But I know how TV works… the directors are mindblowing, they work non-stop.

I am not anti-men, I believe truly that we are meant to be equal. We should be judged equally and I think I am a living example of feminism.

There are two aspects around which the dynamics of Bollywood revolve - chivalry and chauvinism.

I like to entertain all kinds of audiences with my films.