"Raman Raghav' was shot on location, but there are many stylistic things in it. I like this mixture of documentary and extreme stylization."
"For me, 'Badlapur' is a terrifically emotional film."
"The stories I read or get attracted to have a kind of thrill element, or a crime."
"Ek Hasina Thi' is a love story that went sour."
"Like you don't watch 'Octopussy' or any Bond film for the story. You see it for the smart lines, the glamour, the overall package."
"Frankly, you cannot match the action in a Bond or a Bourne film. Forget budgets, it needs an expertise which I probably lacked."
"If it’s a Hindi film, it has to have a Hindi title."
"I love songs but am inhibited to have my characters burst out to express themselves through songs. I use the route of using old songs at the right places."
"Songs definitely add to the excitement about a movie."
"Badlapur' has got an excellent soundtrack even though it wasn’t planned at all in the beginning."
"When I started watching movies, I saw a lot of Hitchcock films. When I was 10, I saw 'North by Northwest' and movies like that."
"Badlapur' is a drama, a character-driven story. It is not so much about plot."
"With 'Badlapur', I wasn’t even thinking about casting. I was wondering whether any producer will want to make a film with a story like this. It is not your expected, feel-good, or even your regular thriller."
"There’s this film called 'The Pledge', with Jack Nicholson in it. Now that’s a dark film."
"As a filmmaker, I tilt towards stories which are crime-led."
"Right from childhood, I have enjoyed films which belong to the thriller genre. As a kid, I would read novels written by Agatha Christie and James Hadley Chase."
"I wanted to make films, but the films being made in the 1990s were not my kind. I couldn’t break in, and even if I did manage to get a foothold, I didn’t know what I would make."
"People don’t know what filmmaking is even after they have made ten films."
"There are certain actors I think I can approach whenever I am working on something and Shah Rukh is one of those. He's somebody whom I'd love to work with."
"Unless the movie is about to release, I don't like to be in the limelight. Then I have no choice, but after that you have to get back."
"I'm not a social person. I don't like parties. I like small groups, we discuss ideas in my office."
"When you are working on a real story it is your responsibility to get everything right and stay as true and authentic as possible."
"People often get caught in situations or do something that they regret for the rest of their lives. What happens and how you try to cover up is the story. These are not career criminals."
"We all are scared of bad things… So when you are watching a film, you see your fears on the screen."
"Only three or four thrillers are made in Hindi cinema in a year. There is a fascination for crime genre but producers think thrillers don’t have that much of a market or will not get picked up for satellite rights."
