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Governments don't like harmony.
I'll keep venting my anger through my films.
I have made my mistakes and learnt from those.
I am a shy man. I can't call a stranger and talk.
Since my adolescence, divisive politics has bothered me.
There's a big difference between chauvinism and chivalry.
I'm a workaholic and there is no other engagement in my life.
I keep finding good stories so I don't see a reason not to work.
Western audiences are way more forgiving for the image of a star.
Banaras is a mystical city. It is not easy to know that city well.
I feel 'Tum Bin' is a franchise where fresh actors are appreciated.
The most dangerous evils of society are the ones we don't speak of.
Physical violence was never an option for men or women in my family.
Even when I make pizza, I make it from the scratch and prepare the dough.
Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.
Generally, drama films are made with stars - I broke the rule unknowingly.
I am afraid of things which scare me. I am afraid of heights and too much love.
No, I never felt cornered because I was not a big director's son or a star's son.
'Article 15' is an investigative drama where the audience too is an accused party.
I am a secular man who believes in inclusion, so balance comes across organically.
I aspired to make 'Tum Bin II' better than my first film, if not as good as 'Tum Bin.'
When you watch a film like 'Warning,' you would realize that it can't be made with stars.
After 'Ra.One,' 'Cash,' 'Tum Bin 2' did not work, I almost lost my confidence as a director.
You choose the film, and then the film chooses everyone else; a film decides everything on its own.
Nepotism is an overrated debate. It exists everywhere and I have been telling this from the day one.
Hindus and Muslims used to be like two neighbors, who had some issues but who also loved each other.
In 2001 when 'Tum Bin' released we got 90 to 100 screens. India had around 1000 screens at that time.
In Mumbai, you get good international food but there are few restaurants that serve good Indian cuisine.
In my profession, people are never scared to be nice. They are in fact apprehensive about being critical.
I have a beautiful sofa, which is my writing corner, on which I sit every day and look outside the window.
It is not easy to deliver a good film and take the expectation of the audience one level higher every time.
The first thing that bothers me after any celebrity death happens is that my phone starts buzzing for a bite.
It may not be the best marketing thing to do but I don't like talking about my film until I have finished it.
I keep saying that I am made of two cities and all my friends. You learn different things from different people.
I will continue to make films to express my thoughts that come from my observations, from the society we live in.
'Mulk' is a film that needed to be made. We can no longer sweep the isolation of the Indian Muslim under the carpet.
I derive a lot of joy from cooking. Had cooking been a mandatory task, I probably would have felt differently about it.
As a filmmaker, if your personality is not reflected in your movies, then what are you doing, why are you making films?
Social distancing on a film set is an oxymoron. It can't happen, it won't happen. We can keep lying to ourselves though.
After 'Sea Hawks,' television became very strange for me, I could not relate to the stories that were being shown on TV.
I come from Varanasi. Abuses, profanities and threats don't bother me. I am 6-foot-tall guy and I can take care of myself.
When my second film 'Dus' released, I was still getting compliments for 'Tum Bin' because it was a hit on satellite channels.
A movie moment in a theatre would never be comparable to the same movie moment elsewhere no matter how cheap the big TV becomes.
When you make the biggest film in the history of Bollywood, 'Ra.One,' and get so much flak, it drains you... haunts you for years.
After 'Mulk,' I figured it's your voice that people are connecting with. So then my voice became of prime importance to me for my films.
I truly believe that women are extremely talented people and with the right opportunities, they perform as well and maybe better than men.
I grew up at Kabir Choura in Varanasi in the 1970s. It was an era when communal riots used to happen every now and then at different places.
Around 2013-14, I started ranting on Twitter about the communal dysfunction that society was getting into. And I would have fights with trolls.
My father would get up with his plate after dinner and keep it where it was supposed to be kept. He wouldn't leave the plate for my mom to pick up.
I am from a very vague caste. I don't belong to any of the four. I am kayastha. They are well read, largely clerks so they get treated respectfully.