Quotes from Mahesh Bhatt

I have great reverence for women.

If you can't put problems in your own backyard to rest, then how can you deal with larger issues?

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.

I don't think the choice of launching Sunny Leone as an actor in Hindi cinema was that radical a decision.

I love people who have distinctive, unique personalities who are not in assembly lines and have something to offer.

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

I come from a home where my mother was the only emotional umbrella under which we found all the warmth and comforts and sustenance. My father would come and go, and not as often as we'd want him to.

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

I am what this country dreams of achieving: a perfect example of composite India.

'Zakhm' has no political agenda. But, it certainly says things as they are.

I am a mere filmmaker. I am not even aligned to any political party. I vote for the Congress party, and I root for the Congress ideology, but I am not subject to the Congress party.

I am a people's person. I consume people.

There is a child in every man, and that's why larger-than-life stories which have a fairly tale component will work.

Modi talks about Congress Mukt Bharat. I feel this is a fascist ideology.

Rahul Roy is delusional. He wants 'Aashiqui' to end with him. When it didn't end with me, how can it end with him?

I am not a person who believes in austerity or denial.

A franchise gives a sense of security to everyone - the director, producers, exhibitors, and even the audience feels that they are watching something close to the first part.

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.

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

I can understand the individual who is driven by biases. I can sit with him across the table and can talk to him, deal with him. But bias in the man whom we put in the seat of power and who decides to play on it... That man will destroy the very fabric of the nation.

Having buildings, growth models, having great progress, flyovers, and no human being is feeling for human being is a nightmare scenario.

I have only an appetite for masochistic truth, and only box-office collection figures interest me.

Life experiences cannot be learnt on the film set or in front of the camera.