Quotes from Vivek Agnihotri

It is very difficult to convince producers about a script without having the backing of a star.

The most difficult things in the world is to touch anybody's heart.

When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.

You will always have a tough fight when you are expressing yourself and not impressing people. The path of truth is a lonely journey.

The Tashkent Files' is not a propaganda film.

I am interested in a constructive approach, which looks at how wealth can be created using bright ideas that will help India prosper.

I am passionate about film festivals.

I always wanted to make 'Freedom,' but I had to drop the idea due to financial crisis.

In India's eastern side, there are communist terror outfits and in the western side there are Islamic terror organisations. These outfits ensure that there is always a state of anarchy.

Arundhati Roy has been called many things, including a terrorist.

Hardik Patel and Kanhaiya Kumar are absolutely intellectual terrorists - they have been created.

There is nothing wrong with socialism or communism but they are irrelevant now. Some intellectual terrorists are provoking people in the name of these ideologies just like some religious terrorists go and demolish mosques and want to build temples in their place.

I won't name the real-life people who have inspired me, as I don't want publicity.

I don't think content matters at all. Content won't matter unless it matters to the stars. Producers are helpless people... They don't dictate or guide content. It is dictated purely by stars.

I enjoy working on different genres.

I have a wish list for 'Awwal.' I want to work with Ajay Devgn. I need an entertainer, a big star as this is a big film. I feel Ajay will be suitable for the film. He can seriously carry a comic role.

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.'

The best way to test whether you are saying the truth or not - if you say something and people don't react then it's not the real truth. But if people start reacting then what you are saying has got an element of truth.

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.

While thinking about 'Freedom,' I took 'Hate Story' as a challenge and did justice to it. We shot it like a beautiful international thriller.

When I made 'Chocolate,' no one had made suspense thrillers for a long time.

It is difficult to touch hearts than mind, because in the mind you do have some reference point.

I have a connection with Bengali heroines. I have worked with Tanushree Dutta and Bipasha Basu.

Anil Kapoor is a star. He reinvented the characterisation of heroism.