Quotes About Growth

In 2012, I got my first Gujarati film. After that, a lot of things changed for me and for the Gujarati film industry. I did my early films by taking leave from my engineering job.

My early films look terrible! I didn't know what I was doing. I learned when I was doing it. I never went to film school.

I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.

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

I learn from everybody on a film set.

I think of myself as young, but I was 23 when we were filming. Diana was 19; 16 at the start.

I love that first-time feeling that I can't build in myself anymore, where I can learn and emulate other filmmakers. Be it Ayan Mukherjee, Punit Mahotra, Karan Malhotra, Tarun Mansukhani or Shakun Batra, all of them have taught me something or the other.

Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens.

As I continue to evolve as a filmmaker, I'm going to continue to do different stuff.

I came out of 'Che' a different filmmaker.

If you're involved in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself.

Filmmaking is never easy as long as you continue learning from the process.

People don't know what filmmaking is even after they have made ten films.

Sometimes I wonder how my filmmaking would have been affected by film school but in the end I'm glad I got to figure it out on my own.

Eleven years in films is a long time.

That's the problem I have, I don't have a filter. It's something that I'm working on.

I used to write about experiences that a 20-year-old would write about - going out with your friends, having a drink. You know, things were a little bit sexier in a different way. Now, you know, I'm a mom, and I want to filter some of the things that I say.

Going to Manchester United, you're expected to be the final product.

I was given a chance to re-haul 'New Mutants' and take it from the dog of the 'X-Men' office to 1 million copies with its final issue.

Being in the final four of 'Tough Enough' has honestly been the best experience of my life. It's truly been an honor.

When everybody starts out in the process of 'The Voice,' you do think about the people who have won or that have made it to the finale and what happens.

Finally I'm becoming stupider no more.

It's funny because when I got 'Jarhead' and 'Avatar' and all those movies, 'Leprechaun' still to this day airs on BET. I was thinking, 'Will they just let it go? I finally have a body of work that can speak much better to what I can do than just Leprechaun.'

I didn't take constructive criticism the way I should have. When I finally caught up to that, that's when I went to being the MVP.