Quotes from Vivek Agnihotri

I believe when your ideas are pure and honest, when you give your heart to something, God automatically propels you in the right direction.

I am a rooted person, 'Awwal' is a social satire.

I knew 'Hate Story' would work. I had expected a great opening but the fact that it has completed 50 days at the box office is an overwhelming feeling.

China's relationship with the world has changed dramatically since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan resulting in human lives and global economies being ravaged.

Whenever I visit Lucknow my soul gets refreshed.

Outlook came at a time when India Today was at its peak and on its way to becoming a sarkari magazine. At the time, we were in college, and all moved from IT to Outlook. However, over the years, my reading of the magazine has gone down greatly.

Bengali women have a lot of sensual appeal.

I understand sociopolitical problems of the country, they bother me a lot.

The Chinese countryside has become a slave labour camp and dumping ground for every imaginable pollutant. The rural peasantry is being sucked dry by corrupt government tax collectors.

If there are no stars in your film, nobody will look at you. If you have Sunny Leone in the film you will get hundreds of dollars but if you have a honest story to tell it's difficult to find producers.

Censor board should be abolished.

I don't believe in preachy films. I don't like such films. Having said that, I don't even enjoy films that only 'entertain.' That way, even the circus entertains.

In India, we surrender and compromise. We end up getting a star who is not fitting the character.

For a love story, basic emotion should be there, you need a combination of everything. Good chemistry between the actors, music, script. If even one of them is not in place, the magic will not be there.

No director wants to make films with stars. It is a compulsion for them.

From Brazil, Cuba and Venezuela to Equatorial Guinea and the Ivory Coast, China dangles lavish, low-interest loans and sophisticated weapons systems as bait. It then uses its 'weapons of mass construction,' a huge army of engineers and labourers, to build everything from roads and dams to parliament buildings and palaces.

I was making commercial films like 'Chocolate' and 'Hate Story.' Then came a time when I realised that such stories only entertain for a week, and then we forget about them.

When you show a corrupt police officer in a film, you don't mean that all policemen are corrupt. You just point to the fact that there is corruption in the system.

If China has cheap labour, Africa has cheaper labour. This is why China started buying out poor countries.

Hate Story' is about power of women and I feel her bare back poster with a gun justifies it.

When a city lends itself to film shoots, it becomes cosmopolitan.

Bollywood is neither an industry nor a corporate house. It's a jungle of ambition where every one wants to grow taller than the other.

The world will see the other side of Delhi in 'Freedom.'

Hate has destroyed more than what love has ever created.