Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.

Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country's not so clean. They're either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland - clean places. Everywhere except India.

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.

For me, any kind of thing that has stood for 100 years tells me of the health of that thing. So, cinema completing a hundred years in India just says that it is very healthy.

I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.