Vikramaditya Motwane

“There should be a certification process to suggest if a particular film is suitable for 12-year-olds, 15-year-olds or 18-year-olds. The same thing I think applies for the Internet.”

“Trapped' is the story of a guy stuck in an apartment with no food, no water and no electricity, and of his survival based on his primal instincts.”

“Of all the films that I have directed, I think 'Lootera' is the one that could have been better.”

“I'm willing to fail, my producers are willing to fail, my crew is willing to fail.”

“I've never lived anywhere else in my life, I have a massive love-hate relationship with this city. I grew up in the western suburbs in the '80s and for everything we had to go to south Bombay - so you lived the whole city, in a sense.”

“Problems just make me more determined.”

“I like to have the actors do their thing. And then brief them what to do differently in take two.”

“In this industry, you are as good as your last hit.”

“I think Raju Hirani and Farah Khan are the only two filmmakers who can balance the multiplex audiences and the single-screen audiences.”

“Personally, the films I love include 'Black Friday,' 'Lage Raho Munna Bhai,' 'Love Sex Aur Dhoka,' and 'Zindagi Na Milege Dobara' because they work at the box office and are complete packages.”

“You want every film that you make to do well, not just indie films in general.”

“My forte is editing and I am most experienced in that. I love the challenge of playing with material and imagination while editing.”

“While writing 'Bhavesh,' I pretty much chewed up every single graphic novel I could get my hands on, so all the way from the entire 'Batman' series, Frank Miller's 'Batman,' Ed Brubaker's 'Batman,' Scott Snyder's 'Batman,' all the way through 'Daredevil' to '100 Bullets,' through so many other graphic novels.”

“The job of any artiste is to open the eyes of the public to their surroundings and make them aware of it.”

“Dystopia is a very interesting setting. Whether it's '1984' or 'Fahrenheit 451'... Dystopia is a wonderfully cinematic setting.”

“Of course, you have to think of the audience. You cannot make an obtuse film that only appeals to a small niche section of the audience.”

“Make movies that you want to go and watch in a theatre.”

“I was born in Mumbai and brought up between Mumbai and Nashik.”

“Actors love... at the end of the day, stars are actors. They love performing. And the more challenges I feel that you end up giving stars on the sets, the happier they are.”