Every five years, there is a shift in cinema space, but we are slow to catch that. Young people understand that shift.

Making a film is very gratifying and intoxicating. It does great things to your self-esteem, but pushing people and mentoring them to their full potential is far more fulfilling.

In a country like India, with an ever-changing demography, adaptability is the most important attribute to survive in the industry.

The narratives in which you're born have a fierce pattern of repetition.

I am what this country dreams of achieving: a perfect example of composite India.

I was a dreamer, and thank God for that!

Life continues, irrespective of whether we are there or not.

I can be unhappy with the Congress, but I cannot give up on its ideology.

The Congress may have made mistakes, but their ideology is not wrong.

When the film industry moves to the 21st century, there should be no doubt in anyone's mind that the money used in film-making is clean and devoid of any underworld connections.

I have only an appetite for masochistic truth, and only box-office collection figures interest me.

It's always better to make a hero than lean on one. My goal is to emulate China in the filmmaking business, not Los Angeles.

Cinema is not part of my entertainment.

There is no one idea of India, but ideas of India.

Vijay Anand's death marks the passing away of a true, original mind. Vijay had charisma and cinematic dazzle. He was the first who gave Indian film directors the status of a star.

Life experiences cannot be learnt on the film set or in front of the camera.

It's only a big man who makes you feel big.

India was going though a difficult time in 1997. We had revolving door governments.

'Zakhm' was my last film as a director.

A long and productive career in the world of films is bound to be checkered with success and failures. You cannot have one without the other; the only way not to make a flop is not to make a film.

I love to inspire and get inspired.

I am a people's person. I consume people.

I personally feel that religion should be kept private.

If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his culture, society must set him free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.