I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say.

They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.

People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.