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.

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.

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

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

I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.