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“I keep saying that I am made of two cities and all my friends. You learn different things from different people.”
“I was always fearless.”
“Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.”
“I have a beautiful sofa, which is my writing corner, on which I sit every day and look outside the window.”
“I have always gone with the story which I liked at that point of time and when I retire my filmography will be interesting.”
“I don't think I have tried to give any message through 'Mulk.' But I have put certain things on the table which are usually discussed in the living rooms, not in our cinema.”
“I know that I don't have a problem with women knowing more or learning more or performing better or making more money.”
“Cinema halls aren't just about movie watching. It's like watching a live match in a stadium with the crowd where you collectively share moments of joy and sorrow.”
“After becoming an engineer, I worked for a year in Faridabad. I was so bored. I used to live in a one-room apartment, and every night I would come back to a frog in my bathroom.”
“I have made my mistakes and learnt from those.”
“I have been a fearless man. I have been a ridiculous man. I finished my engineering and got a job. And then one day, I just quit it. I didn't know what I would do, but I didn't want to be an engineer anymore.”
“I'll keep venting my anger through my films.”
“My father would get up with his plate after dinner and keep it where it was supposed to be kept. He wouldn't leave the plate for my mom to pick up.”
“After 'Mulk,' I figured it's your voice that people are connecting with. So then my voice became of prime importance to me for my films.”
“I don't even know whether I am a savarna or not, I am a Kayasth, so I am not Brahmin or Kshatriya or Vaishya or Shudra.”
“I derive a lot of joy from cooking. Had cooking been a mandatory task, I probably would have felt differently about it.”
“It is not a coincidence that we have managed to send rockets into space, but our literacy rate continues to be below the world average. It is because governments don't want an educated electorate. Because if we get educated, we will start asking the right questions. And they don't want the right questions being asked.”
“I am from a very vague caste. I don't belong to any of the four. I am kayastha. They are well read, largely clerks so they get treated respectfully.”
“I aspired to make 'Tum Bin II' better than my first film, if not as good as 'Tum Bin.'”
“It is not easy to deliver a good film and take the expectation of the audience one level higher every time.”