“'Heyy Babyy' needed fast cutting and eye contact. It didn't need fancy...” — Sajid Khan Quote

'Heyy Babyy' needed fast cutting and eye contact. It didn't need fancy camera angles.

Somewhere at heart I am a kid; I have not grown, really.

After 'Humshakals,' the Sajid Khan bashing which followed, that was a little unnecessary. Genuinely.

Among close friends and family members, I say whatever I want to. But, as a filmmaker, I have my responsibilities, and I have to look at so many things at the time of finalizing a script.

I am usually frivolous and fun, but sometimes I can be dead serious in my comments.

Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.

There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.

Poems are not read: they are reread. Reread the poem, then read between the lines, then look at it, then watch it, then peek at it: handle it like an object. Contemplate its shadows, angles and dimensions.

I work my angles and things like that.