'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

I'm a commercial filmmaker.

I had to take a break to set up my production company. Managing a production house is a different ballgame. It's not like signing a film and arriving on the set.

I wanted to direct a film that can showcase my son's acting prowess.

I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

I would never want to do a content-driven film with a box office life of Rs 20 crore.

I don't make Mills & Boons kind of films.

I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

'Gulabo Sitabo' is the biggest release for me. The film is going to 203 countries simultaneously and it is successfully being subtitled in 20 languages including Portuguese, German, Spanish, Russian, French and many more.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

Director Kabir Khan had read the script of 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' and is responsible for roping in Salman Khan for this film - a movie that will also mark as Salman's debut production.

When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

When you're making an independent film, there is no guarantee that anyone is going to see it, ever.

What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

Yeah, I'd love to write a film, that'd be great.

There's two aspects of film crafting that I'm very strict about, and that's how I move my camera and where I cut the film.

I played a biker in one of my earliest films in Telugu, 'Mr Perfect.'

'The Canon' is a film podcast that also has much in common with books podcast 'Backlisted.' Both suggest you can get a lot of pleasure out of things that aren't new.