When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

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.

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

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

I felt so skinless at times! Things hit me so hard!

You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

Don't Stop ...down, ...Down there ...down where ...monsters, ...Run!

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

True success is what you have done compared to what you could have done.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.