Pooja Bhatt

“Apart from my film, I am producing TV serials and plan to make more films, too. Mine is not going to be one-film-a-year production company as such.”

“I don't believe in feeling victimised. Instead, I like facing it on. Would I like to change a few things in life? Yes! But at the end of the day, mistakes are the dues you get to have a full life.”

“My gaze is very different from that of Ekta Kapoor's, and that is quite visible in those two films - 'Ragini MMS 2' and 'Jism 2.'”

“The satellite and digital space is where the audience for 'Cabaret' lies: a discerning lot who don't rush to the cinema hall on the first day, first show, and prefer instead to consume their entertainment at their time and comfort.”

“I wish there were people who gave me roles like my dad did.”

“'Jism' is what it is because of my feminine gaze... And I believe strongly that my female audiences deserve eye candy as much as my male audiences do!”

“It annoys me that we glorify sex symbols one day and make them apologise the next.”

“I need a combination of attitude, sensuality, and vulnerability. I need a new kind of heroine. After Bipasha Basu and Sunny Leone, India now needs an even more unique fantasy figure.”

“I enjoy just being a producer and a home maker. I love being in charge. I love being the tortured and tormented soul. I am a Piscean. I enjoy the real-life drama fully.”

“We live in such a narcissistic world where people love to be in front of the camera.”

“I'm no role model, but I thought if I showed my frailties, which I had turned around into achievement, I could help many others.”

“One thing I do not see happening is women of certain age being represented correctly. We have to evolve conceptually.”

“At 45, I am too young to write my memoirs.”

“Actors betray. Technicians don't. Movies are made by technicians.”

“I was told that since I am such an opinionated woman, people would think 10 times before approaching me for their films.”

“I decided to put my money where my mouth was and make films that I believe in. So even if I failed, I failed on my terms.”

“'Dhokha' is a film devoid of any political bias. It conveys to the government that when we talk about individuals who are terrorists, we have to first acknowledge that we created them.”

“My grandmother, Betty Bertha Bright, lived in the Armenian block in Kolkata. After '36 Chowringhee Lane,' we haven't seen that part of the city in films.”

“When I married Munna, people didn't give our marriage even two months to survive. But we lasted for 12 years. The first 10 were magical. He's a fair man, a wise man.”

“I have seen this whole process of films releasing, becoming hits or flops, for too long now to expect things to do well. If I expect a film to do well, then it is for somebody else's sake, not for my own. I do my work, and if you feel that my work is improving from film to film, then I have done my part of the job.”