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.

The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

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

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

I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.