Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

I'm not making films just to be bold.

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.

Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

The only times I'm consistent about praying are when I'm on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by.

Better not to work on things that you're not in love with.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine.

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

I used to be more glamorous.

I'm so private and I don't know why!

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

Making art is different for everyone.