Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

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.

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.

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 didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.

I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.