“Am I a romantic? I’ve seen “Wuthering Heights” ten times. I’m a romantic.”

Now, bring me that horizon.

The thing is, even if you’re playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.

Throughout my lifetime I’ve left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there’s almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

Escapism is survival to me.

Sometimes I feel like I’m possessed with a multitude of demons.

I am eternally grateful.

I’m not sure I’m adult yet.

One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There’s nothing more beautiful, nothing more sublime.

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.

Do what you really want to do. Don’t play their game! Don’t do what they want. Find your own way.

Explore purity.

You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.

I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.

People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

Money doesn’t buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

I think everybody’s nuts.

If I had my way, I want to do 15 films in a year, but I have realised I cannot physically do that.

I can get caught in many things but there is one thing I will never get caught in, and that is acting – because I don’t act. On screen I am like I am in real life.

You don’t see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

If I do a film, I go to the place where it is based on, interact with people, and then, I believe, you pick up things without you even noticing.

Whenever I have really enjoyed being part of a film, it has worked well for me.

All I want to do is to make movies that are appealing to people.

I have always maintained that the audience should take a call on this. Its up to them to decide whether they want to see a pirated version or not. They should understand the effort and amount of hard work that go into a film.

I like movies made by Spike Lee – doing those films out of the U.S., that is really daring.