The good thing about Hyderabad is the variety of cuisine available. From Nizami cuisine to Andhra food to Telengana delicacies, you are spoilt for choice.

I would say that if a man like Balasaheb Thackeray can exist, 'Sarkar' can exist.

First of all, 'Sarkar' is not an underworld film. It's about a man at the head of a feudal set-up in the middle of a cosmopolitan city, where he almost runs a parallel government largely due to his personal charisma. And the film is about his friends and enemies and his family.

'The Godfather' has been a film which has influenced me a lot.

With my films, I'm targeting the urban multiplexes, the sophisticated media-savvy young crowd.

I grew up with Western films, and I always wondered why Bollywood never made films like that. Why do we always have to break into song?

My greatest dream is to make a film on 'The Fountainhead,' which I have been restraining from doing because it is so much in the mind, and I am yet to be able to decode that.

I honestly feel it is important for a director to get obsessed with the characters.

'Bhoot' is a hold-on-to-your-seats horror film, while 'Darna Manaa Hai' is a hold-on-to-your-popcorn horror film.

I have become a full-fledged producer. I spend a lot of time on pre-production work.

If 'Bhoot' was called 'Man Ke Rishte,' no one would be interested. The title is a very essential part of a film. It subconsciously prepares the audience as to what they can expect.

Ultimately, cinema is an actor's medium.

In the business of entertainment, either I am able to create an effect that impresses people or not.

Let me put it this way: if 'The Godfather' hadn't been made, 'Sarkaar' wouldn't have been made. That is the truth.

Any film, whether it worked at the box office or not, I'll have my favourite moments from it.

The problem is I don't have respect for the films I make after I've made them. I detach myself and get embarrassed when I watch them later.

Maybe 'Bhoot' wasn't scary for me because I made it.

The whole idea of making 'James' was to make an action film in the style of the 1970s and '80s.

The point is that a filmmaker is like a journalist in projecting reality in the true sense of the word. Only thing is he dramatically packages it to make more effect.

I never think of a film after I finish it.

It is none of anyone's business how I make my films or my creative partnerships.

I always had a fair share of hits and flops.

The thing about audiences is that we can't generalise them. It's very unfair.

I despise all those who fight for peace. It's only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.