What is the point of making the film if the man doesn't marry the girl?

Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.

I always believe that my films should give some hope to the man who comes to watch them for those three hours. If he goes home on an optimistic note, I would feel satisfied at having done my duty.

I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one.

There are only two types of cinema - good or bad.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing.

I'm not making films just to be bold.

There is no competition in work. Many a man wants glory but fails to work.

Leave it to a vampire to think a healthy guy in his late thirties or early forties was on his deathbed.

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Even back in the '90s, I shot certain things on something that wasn't digital then, but it was on VHS with a smaller camera and we would up it to film.

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

On the wings of lies, man can only fly to the land of shame and lowness!

Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

I think that Congress's ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself