For me,it is very important to believe in the kind of movies I do. Rang De Basanti made me feel good about Indian cinema. The movie instilled in me,a confidence so strong,that I wanted to be a part of the revolution in Bollywood.

To me, the trick is not how can I make people laugh. It is, how can I make people laugh in a different way.

I did theatre in the U.S. because there, content-wise, it's very light. In India, theatre tends to get preachy.

Someday social media might, hopefully in some small measure, wake up to the fact that other people's failures are not your successes.

In Bollywood, people struggle because there is a new person joining every week, who joins an assembly line of people who are very replaceable. But if you are unique, you don't have to struggle that much.

The idea is to do out-of-the-box films that showcase my versatility and talent.

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.