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 think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.

It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.

I want my films to be seen everywhere.

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.