Quotes from Vijay Krishna Acharya

For an Indian audience a double role promises twice the entertainment with somebody they enjoy watching on screen.

I truly enjoy working with kids because they teach me something and it allows me to get in touch with few things that are a bit personal to me.

As a filmmaker what you can hope to do is doing what drives you.

Success and failure are a part of filmmaking.

'Dhoom' is a franchise that has a certain expectation from it.

You can't think of a franchise from day one. It starts with the audience accepting the idea.

I only know a few people who I call friends and a few who've given me the respect, like Yash Chopra, Aditya Chopra, Aamir Khan and Mani Ratnam.

The pursuit system is an ideal way to shoot action sequences. It enhances the picturisation and captures the scene so well that the audience can feel the thrilling speed of the chase sequence in the film. 'Dhoom 3' is the first Hindi film to use this technique.

What excited me to do 'Thugs of Hindostan' was to make a film in the large format about a character, who is not inherently noble.

We are thrilled to see that audiences across age groups, across India are loving 'Thugs of Hindostan' and have made our film a part of their Diwali plans.

Thugs of Hindostan' is the quintessential Hindi movie that we love to watch with our friends and families.

Thugs Of Hindostan' involved a lot of prep to be able to make the character look effortless.

I never approach an actor till I have finished the script.

Bollywood is a place which is completely free from caste, region and religion. Some people might work in the industry with the help of networking but I feel is that it's your artistic competence that gets you work in industry.

I'm a hardcore reality lover. I love characters that people can relate with and yet a tinge of grey shade.

I remember cycling down in my hometown Kanpur twice in two days for eight kilometres to see 'Ardh Satya.' I loved its rawness at a time when everyone was doing potboilers.

I hoped 'Tashan' would be a clutter-breaker.

I used Malta as a location to shoot a lot of my action sequences, and that's because we don't have the kind of setup that Malta Film Studios does. They have a world-class facility.

Doing a remake is an open admission that, 'boss, I don't have anything of my own.'

Many people want to be a part of this industry only because of its glamour. What they have to understand is that it takes hard work to make it big. Imitation and bootlicking won't get you through.

I always wanted to be in Bollywood and the first step towards that was by participating in school plays. I would get awards for my acting and that motivated me to get into Bollywood.

In 'Guru,' the business aspect is more of a layer and sub-text... to me, Harshad Mehta's story is a tragedy, a classic Greek tragedy, where the greed of a lot of people got attached to him.

We are a nation of film lovers, and films have often been a cultural glue that binds us all in a way that transcends geography.

I like travelling a lot so in all my films, I take the location very seriously.