Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

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

Cinema is an art form.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

Films are like oxygen for me.

I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.

Don't waste inspiration

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.

I am in the world to change the world.

Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

I don't know where I end and the world begins. My best guess? Skin. It's the only actual boundary between the body and the world, between a body and any other body.

The heart of taijutsu is important and only through training will one polish that heart (like a gem) and understand true taijutsu.

Success is dependent on the glands - the sweat glands.