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I am not born to make dreamy movies.


I think I had more freedom when I began making films. I did not know what could not be done. I was naive. I did what I wanted to. As you gain awareness, you start losing freedom.


When I'm making a film, I don't want my producer to be on the sets. So when I'm producing a film, I don't want to be on the sets!


To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.


The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.


I am still where I started. I am still struggling. In fact, the struggle has only got bigger. I always try to go beyond my means, and this where the struggle comes in.


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


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


I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.


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


I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.


Films are like oxygen for me.


Cinema is an art form.


'Aiyyaa' is a very quirky film.


It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers make those kind of films is the best way to do it.


'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.


Fans are your greatest enemies because they tend to bracket you. And the moment someone expects I should do something, I break out. I often tell fans who say, 'Make a 'Gulal 2' or 'Gangs 3,' that I am living my dream, not theirs.


We need to stop objectifying our women in what we call our second religion... Our films. And our TV shows.


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


There shouldn't be any censorship on making a film.