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

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

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

I am not born to make dreamy movies.

I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.

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