Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.
Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.
Politicians need a film appreciation course.
'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.
I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.
I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.
I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.
I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.
It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.
I want my films to be seen everywhere.
For me, any kind of thing that has stood for 100 years tells me of the health of that thing. So, cinema completing a hundred years in India just says that it is very healthy.
I'm a huge Coppola fan. But more of 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Conversation.' 'The Godfather' for me is, like, number three or four on the list.
I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.
Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.
I think the Internet has changed the world.
