The world is not a static place. People change, evolve.
I would rather be stupid than pretend to be intelligent.
Rahul Roy is delusional. He wants 'Aashiqui' to end with him. When it didn't end with me, how can it end with him?
I am an absolute atheist.
'Citylights' is for those people who know a lot but don't feel at all. It's time for them to feel, and this film will make those people, who know so much, feel because feeling is the life blood of human race, which is disappearing.
I was perhaps lucky to be born in a single-parent home where my mother, Shirin Mohammed Ali, was the sole figure I revered. My father's absence in my life in my formative years exposed me to only one person, who was my source of learning the lessons of life. So to me, listening to a woman and her worldly view is almost automatic.
Life isn't all about entertainment.
I used to sleep with a little Ganesha under my pillow as a child; he was my favourite deity.
I was born on September, 20, 1948, to Nanabhai Bhatt, a Hindu, and Shirin Mohammed Ali, a Muslim. I was born after three daughters and followed by a daughter and son.
A franchise gives a sense of security to everyone - the director, producers, exhibitors, and even the audience feels that they are watching something close to the first part.
I feel it is the believers who are most dangerous for the secular framework of a nation.
India will not function if you do not believe in unity in diversity.
I come from a home where my mother was the only emotional umbrella under which we found all the warmth and comforts and sustenance. My father would come and go, and not as often as we'd want him to.
The whole idea of 'One size fits all' is not going to work in India with a billion people.
Cinema now can't be just about introspection and atma manthan; such topics won't work.
There is no denying that entertainment industries are insular, but you can't generalise that statement and apply it to everyone.
Films have to appeal to youngsters - it has to have tamasha, drama, and sensationalism.
A true artist is one who, even after doing a lot, he reminds himself that he hasn't done anything.
Men who create power make an indispensable contribution to a nation's greatness. But, men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.
No power on earth can ever get me back to directing a commercial film.
