Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

An outsider can see some things much better.

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.

The problem is not the content of textbooks, but the very idea of them.

All monsters have their fits of depression.

Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure...but now you've just gone nuts!

Perfection can be a fetish

The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

She is mine, and I am hers.

If you'd like to reach me, leave me alone.

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.