“I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.”

I steal from every movie ever made.

My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

If I’m doing my job right, then I’m not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I’m just jotting it down.

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

I don’t believe in putting in music as a band aid to get you over some rough parts or bad film making. If it’s there it’s got to add to it or take it to another level.

Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t.

It’s nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I’ll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.

Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I’m severed.

Movies are not about the weekend that they’re released, and in the grand scheme of things, that’s probably the most unimportant time of a film’s life.

I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

Whatever happens, happens for the better. I was meant to do ‘Raabta.’ Every film has its destiny, and it’s the film that chooses you.

Sex is not required to sell my film. My name is enough.

The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.

I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie.

I was clear about the fact that my first film should be ‘big,’ since it’s the start of your whole career graph.

Films are getting expensive by the day. They are making more money by the day.

I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.

I talk to my parents everyday and every move that I make, every endorsement that I do, every film that I do and my everyday activities are all discussed with them.