It was only in the early 1990s – during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University – that I discovered the world of cinema.

The West sometimes doesn’t understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique – that’s not working any more.

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the ‘bold’ films out of reach of the audience.

Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country’s not so clean. They’re either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland – clean places. Everywhere except India.

I didn’t ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.

I’m a huge Coppola fan. But more of ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘The Conversation.’ ‘The Godfather’ for me is, like, number three or four on the list.

I’m very emotional and possessive about all my films.

I don’t know if I’d ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I’ve passed that stage long ago.

Entertainment’s definition has been reduced to making people happy.