A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.

Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.