Our stars are quite notorious. I mean, they don't show up on time. This is, you know, something which is very, very annoying.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old Your days are gone; it is part of life.

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars Without stars they cannot work.