“I never had the guts to tell my parents that I wanted to be a filmmake...” — Vivek Agnihotri Quote

I never had the guts to tell my parents that I wanted to be a filmmaker. I had to take a very long route to finally arrive here.

China has become a ticking time bomb, facing many wars within, triggered by a number of internal ticking economic and demographic tinderboxes that threaten to bring on that which the Chinese people fear most - 'chaos' or 'luan.'

Modi is a great orator.

After making two big movies 'Chocolate' and 'Goal' with big stars and being completely involved with making ad films as such, the time had come to reinvent myself not only as a director but also as a human.

With sport dramas and war movies, it is always about accomplishment, where people are fighting for their country or community's honour.

If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.