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.

'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.

I love revisions…We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

Life has diverse threads that's as much as the number of ppl alive at every given time.

Love makes you feel at home in existence.

I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.