I've been able to chart out my professional life. But I can never chart out my personal one.

I would be surprised though if I don't get unbelievable critical acclaim for 'Dirty Picture' and a national award for my actress, Vidya Balan. The movie has one of the most well-written scripts I have come across, and a lot of youngsters in my office have looked at it with great admiration.

I am not going to become a critical-acclaim-junkie at all.

I'm in competition only with myself, and I always want to push the envelope.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

I'm so grateful to have been raised on love and to be so in love with my wife.