Quotes from Vivek Agnihotri

I was planning to make 'Hate Story 2,' but I stepped out of that project. I don't want to repeat the genre.

A city's soul is best observed during the morning, what is the culture of the city, how are the people, you also get to know whether the city is cosmopolitan or religious.

I was one of those students that would protest and think the unrest will help create a revolution.

Without the Naval Uprising of 1946, the story of India's freedom will never be complete.

People call me a Modi bhakt now. I used to be a Marx bhakt. I was part of what I now call the intellectual mafia. I used to believe in it, and worked for it. My eyes opened up when I began to travel, and meet different kinds of people.

I used to spend not just my summer vacations at my Nani's house in Kanpur but my Diwali and Holi holidays too.

I think up to the 1990s, there were a lot of political commentaries in our films... on oppression and women empowerment.

Modi is a great orator.

Chocolate' is an orbit in which seven different characters keep moving from one place to another to reveal a bigger drama. It's about how ordinary people get stuck in extraordinary situations.

From Mira Road to Malad, Mumbai is full of such outsiders, wanting to become Shah Rukh Khan.

When I was studying in JNU, I realised how students and professors address each other as comrades.

The entertainment industry has three kinds of politics - sexual politics, money politics and power politics. A desperate actor can become victim of any of these political games.

If one tries to expose the Harvey Weinsteins of Bollywood, some very big empires and icons will fall down. My nephew was a victim of one of those. But who will fight their muscle? You need many Kangana Ranauts for that.

Goal' is a human drama. It is a triumph of human spirit where football is the device through which the characters actualise themselves and find victory in their lives.

Rahul Gandhi himself doesn't have any vision or the political acumen to be able to differentiate between sycophancy and sincere advice.

Love stories are the most difficult to make.

I think we need more love stories.

When you don't have money for marketing, you explore alternate ways.