Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

Personally, when a controversy erupts, we decide first whether it requires clarification and, secondly, if it receives notice from authorities and the establishment, we submit responses to their queries.

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

India as a film-making nation has gained recognition, at last, at most important Western and Far Eastern forums.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if it was near any acceptability, I would not be in a position to pen a script or a book.