Mahesh Bhatt

I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.

It's always better to make a hero than lean on one. My goal is to emulate China in the filmmaking business, not Los Angeles.

My career says that my doors will always be open for all. When an Anupam Kher walked in through my door at 28 and got 'Saaransh,' it launched his unimaginably productive career.

A long and productive career in the world of films is bound to be checkered with success and failures. You cannot have one without the other; the only way not to make a flop is not to make a film.

I was never good at school, couldn't get a job. I was a disaster when I tried to do things the way the world wanted me to.

One needs strong performance to put across a point in theatre.

My last film as director, the National Award winning 'Zakhm,' barely managed to break even. So why should I listen to so-called sensibilities of a handful of critics?

Every five years, there is a shift in cinema space, but we are slow to catch that. Young people understand that shift.

I believe that, at times, if some of us are almost too critical of our society, it's because our sensitivity and our concern for justice makes us aware that our nation falls terribly short of its highest potential.

No power on earth can ever get me back to directing a commercial film.

We as men, need to give the Indian women all the strength that she needs, rightfully asking to be able to walk with head held high.

The tragedy of India is that the Mahatma, who has numerous streets named after him and has had his statues put up everywhere, who's there in our school books and on our currency, who is used by everyone to hardsell his political ideology, is not emulated in India.