“Filmmaking is not a one man show. It is not like I'm thinking somethin...” — Mani Ratnam Quote

“Filmmaking is not a one man show. It is not like I'm thinking something and they are expressing it. I try to pull the actor in and together we try to get the expression. It is not my thinking alone, it is our thinking. The actor also becomes a part of the thought process.”

“Every time you make a film, you want to do it in a genre that is different from your previous film, so that there is something fresh about it.”

“I am not against songs in films. We come from an oral tradition of storytelling. I have grown up listening to epics in oral rendition and oral rendition always had music.”

“I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.”

“Expressing and loving myself is often so much more complex than 'out' affords me.”

“Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.”