Vivek Agnihotri

“I believe when your ideas are pure and honest, when you give your heart to something, God automatically propels you in the right direction.”

“Hate has destroyed more than what love has ever created.”

“We used to have a genre called Muslim social drama which nobody in the world has. Writers from North India and Bengal came and wrote great stories. Then that stopped.”

“I am a rooted person, 'Awwal' is a social satire.”

“From Mira Road to Malad, Mumbai is full of such outsiders, wanting to become Shah Rukh Khan.”

“When I was studying in JNU, I realised how students and professors address each other as comrades.”

“Failing is not a sin.”

“Bollywood is neither an industry nor a corporate house. It's a jungle of ambition where every one wants to grow taller than the other.”

“Football is very cinema friendly and the intense competition that the game involves only charges up the atmosphere. This cannot be achieved with cricket.”

“Modi is a great orator.”

“After making two big movies 'Chocolate' and 'Goal' with big stars and being completely involved with making ad films as such, the time had come to reinvent myself not only as a director but also as a human.”

“Nobody has a problem if you promote your child, even they are incompetent or have no merit. It's fine, it's your child, your money. But the problem comes when you destroy my career to protect your child's or your friend's career.”

“I think we need more love stories.”

“When you don't have money for marketing, you explore alternate ways.”

“The most difficult things in the world is to touch anybody's heart.”

“I was planning to make 'Hate Story 2,' but I stepped out of that project. I don't want to repeat the genre.”

“When a city lends itself to film shoots, it becomes cosmopolitan.”

“The CCP has become the political incarnation of the deadly coronavirus, infecting the world with illegal trade practices, arm twisting smaller nations, debt - a.k.a death - traps and sinister imperialist ambition.”

“I used to spend not just my summer vacations at my Nani's house in Kanpur but my Diwali and Holi holidays too.”

“Hate Story' is about power of women and I feel her bare back poster with a gun justifies it.”