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Failing is not a sin.
Censor board should be abolished.
I think we need more love stories.
I enjoy working on different genres.
I am passionate about film festivals.
Bengali women have a lot of sensual appeal.
I don't want to repeat myself as a director.
Love stories are the most difficult to make.
The Tashkent Files' is not a propaganda film.
I have always had a problem releasing my films.
Whenever I visit Lucknow my soul gets refreshed.
I am a rooted person, 'Awwal' is a social satire.
Hate has destroyed more than what love has ever created.
When a city lends itself to film shoots, it becomes cosmopolitan.
Arundhati Roy has been called many things, including a terrorist.
The most difficult things in the world is to touch anybody's heart.
When you don't have money for marketing, you explore alternate ways.
Anil Kapoor is a star. He reinvented the characterisation of heroism.
No director wants to make films with stars. It is a compulsion for them.
I understand sociopolitical problems of the country, they bother me a lot.
When I made 'Chocolate,' no one had made suspense thrillers for a long time.
All I want to achieve is to present the unreported history of Kashmiri Hindus.
I won't name the real-life people who have inspired me, as I don't want publicity.
I always wanted to make 'Freedom,' but I had to drop the idea due to financial crisis.
Without the Naval Uprising of 1946, the story of India's freedom will never be complete.
Hate Story' is about power of women and I feel her bare back poster with a gun justifies it.
From Mira Road to Malad, Mumbai is full of such outsiders, wanting to become Shah Rukh Khan.
When a country's government is involved in something, no filmmaker tries to make a film on it.
China understands that without energy there is no growth and without growth there is no power.
I have a connection with Bengali heroines. I have worked with Tanushree Dutta and Bipasha Basu.
It is very difficult to convince producers about a script without having the backing of a star.
I was busy in making a film called 'Buddha in a Traffic Jam' and it consumed two and half years.
Hardik Patel and Kanhaiya Kumar are absolutely intellectual terrorists - they have been created.
It is difficult to touch hearts than mind, because in the mind you do have some reference point.
In India, we surrender and compromise. We end up getting a star who is not fitting the character.
Real heroes and true leaders have emerged only when they were wounded and were left alone to die.
I was one of those students that would protest and think the unrest will help create a revolution.
When I was studying in JNU, I realised how students and professors address each other as comrades.
Buddha' is my third film but I chose to release 'Hate Story' first because I wanted commercial success.
If China has cheap labour, Africa has cheaper labour. This is why China started buying out poor countries.
I will perform my duties as a cultural ambassador representing the film industry with the best of ability.
China's hyper-growth is causing the world's most populous nation to spin out of the control of its leaders.
I was planning to make 'Hate Story 2,' but I stepped out of that project. I don't want to repeat the genre.
I used to spend not just my summer vacations at my Nani's house in Kanpur but my Diwali and Holi holidays too.
The Kashmir Files' is based on the mass exodus of Kashmiri pandits from the valley in 1989-90 due to militancy.
When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.
There is so much corruption in India that some filmmakers were using political or administrative sources to get access.
I think up to the 1990s, there were a lot of political commentaries in our films... on oppression and women empowerment.
Be it at JNU or any institute, students want India to shine. They want the country to get rid of mediocrity and hypocrisy.
I never had the guts to tell my parents that I wanted to be a filmmaker. I had to take a very long route to finally arrive here.