Anywhere in the world I have travelled to, people would tell me 'Yeh Vaada Raha' is one of their favourite songs. People would even convey the same on Insta and Twitter.

A person's school and teachers help lay a strong foundation, which leads to success.

Jaipur has definitely turned into a very beautiful city.

It was a unique experience, living in 'Bigg Boss' house for 84 days. It would have been fantastic had I won but I am not sad that didn't.

Even the older generation are able to understand things when they see it on TV and identify with it. A lot of people are able to empathise with the characters. They can also distinguish between good and bad.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

To act well isn't an easy thing.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.

The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere.

If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.