While we were filming 'Munna Bhai MBBS,' we didn't think we were doing some kind of mainstream cinema. I only knew that I was doing a different kind of cinema.

The more you succeed, the more you want people to love your efforts.

At the end of the day, you don't remember 'Mother India' or 'Pyaasa' for the business it did, you remember them because they had a good story to tell.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

The pressure is always there to make good films, but that is more from your mindset, either you have it or you don't have it.

One must always attempt to make good films, even if you fail it is ok. It is a journey, you have both good and bad days.

A director should be in a position where he is only directing. On the sets, he is only looking at the performances, thinking 'How I am going to shoot this?'

I would say films inspire me more than the makers.

Attenborough's 'Gandhi' shook me as a filmmaker.