Award shows come with a price tag. You have to lobby and I don't have the acumen for such stuff. Maybe that's the reason I hardly have any award.

There is no need to write about every fight that I have with my wife. That is not fair.

If one can control one's mind, the body follows suit.

While we always try to hide our fears, they keep chasing us all through our lives.

I feel I've been deliberately sidelined by the mainstream filmmakers, but I don't let that bother me. If I start thinking about that, I'll lose focus on what I need to do and have to do.

I am no expert on parenting.

I had been off TV for seven-eight years, and I took up 'Khatron Ke Khiladi' on an impulse. I wanted to do something adventurous post-40, and 'Jhalak' just happened.

I did 'Ek Tha Tiger,' but I wasn't in 'Tiger Zinda Hai.' I know and I feel that I'm ignored.

One indie film does well, for example a 'Bheja Fry,' that gets money for another 20 indie projects. But as soon as the first 8 projects release and flop, out of the 12 remaining ones, six will never take off, three will remain incomplete and the others will be shelved.

Marriage is not always peaceful.

Truly, I never dreamt of becoming an actor - I always wanted to be a director.

I hosted a season of 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa.' I was a part of 'Khatron Ke Khiladi.' Also, being in this business, I know what reality TV is about. Please remember it's about entertainment at the end of the day.

Fatherhood has changed me a lot.

I used to worry about becoming a father. But now, after becoming one, I am very happy.

I am not a serious daddy. I am a very cool daddy.

I have decided never ever to put on weight again. Not even if Francis Ford Coppola were to offer me a role in exchange for putting on 25 kilos!

Not all Bollywood movies are made for the passion for it, they're mostly made to make money.

I think people are okay without knowing what my relationship status is. When nobody asks me, how can people be interested?

Although I myself have not been a huge follower of Shakespeare's dramatic nuances during my academic years, these plays that were penned down centuries ago loom large in every student's psyche, quite effortlessly.

For me, 'Jhalak' was a carry-forward from 'Khatron ke Khiladi.' The channel came to me with this offer, and they were very keen on having me as the host.

It's the film journalists that I'm wary of.

I don't believe in the idea of planning. I take life as it comes.

I take my own time to say yes to a role.

Even I run after money, but money is secondary for me. First comes the script and then my part in the movie.

I have worked with Konkona in 'Mixed Doubles' and 'Traffic Signal' and one thing's clear - she is a fabulous actress and an excellent human being.

In our industry star kids are given opportunities. There is no dearth of films for them.

The only reason I took up small roles in big banner films was in the hope to get the attention of other directors.

I didn't mind taking on small parts.

This is a wrong notion that I work in big budget films. Infact, usually low budget films are offered to me, they come and say it's a good story but they don't have the money.

I haven't got the kind of films from mainstream cinema which I would have wanted. But then mainstream cinema has a different bunch of people who are happy working with each other, which is fine.

There's a watering down of sensibilities in commercial films and I don't seem to fit into that.

I can't dumb down for the audience because I believe my audience is at least as smart as I am.

When you hear Bollywood, you think about everything mainstream, song-and-dance, hero-heroine. I don't think that will ever go away.

I feel lucky that films like 'Singh is King,' 'Ek Tha Tiger' came my way. They were mainstream films that were different.

Ek Tha Tiger' was a great script, director and leading superstar of the film industry Salman Khan is part of it.

The press is writing parallel narrative about my life, especially my married life and nothing about my work. That's media for you.

I feel one shouldn't turn director unless one is compelled to tell a story.

I would like to direct. I am also happy helping other directors realise their vision. I am happy being a cog in a wheel.

I don't think people are interested in knowing the what, when, where and how of my life.

I generally don't talk about my personal life. It is one area that I like to keep to myself.

I am a huge fan of animation.

Ironically India is the hub of animation outsourcing, but our own productions have been anything but fabulous.

Since, I have become a parent... I feel if you sit down and get through your child and use one's understanding to teach them something... Is the easiest way.

Fears are a part of our personality.

We should accept our fears and try to overcome them.

There have been years when I had no films.

When you don't have work for a year or two, you lower your standards a bit for survival.

Working in independent cinema is far more frustrating than mainstream because it is difficult to get money to make such films.

There is such wastage of money in masala films!

My diploma was in film and videography and I then went to a film academy in New York, where I trained in acting as well.