I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.

People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.'

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.

It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers make those kind of films is the best way to do it.

My cards and flowers always got rejected on Valentines Day.