I always say that I'm a filmmaker, not a factory. I don't have to churn out films every six months.

After 'Main Hoon Na,' I got married; so I took some time off.

It takes two years to make a good film.

I've always been told that because of 'Main Hoon Na,' a lot of female filmmakers have come up but I maintain that direction is a ‘genderless' job.

Every person on Twitter is a critic. Every person who watches a movie will write a blog or a review. You can't go out trying to impress these people.

I can take stress on myself but I don't like it when stress comes to my husband or children.

When I meet parents in my children's school, they say there aren't good films for kids to watch. I wonder about the lack of such films too. What do my kids watch?

One should be able to take the whole family along to watch a film.

When I make a movie, I don't do any shows because the focus is completely on the film but when I take up a show, it's an absolute relief!

When I am making a movie, I am very casual; wearing chappals, and have my hair tied. However, when I am judging a show, I take care of myself and get the makeup and hair done.

I am happy judging shows and making films. It is a good thing to do a film and then take up a show, considering it also keeps your popularity alive.

It is more difficult to make film which does not have a big name. People start questioning the cast and the budget.

Parenting three children at the same time has helped me grow as a filmmaker. It taught me to be more empathetic and understand what people want from me.

I will only do something if it has credibility for me, and that includes the films I make, the TV shows I judge and ad-campaigns I sign up for.

I prefer doing work that projects me as a woman and a mother.

For the audience, actors carry out specific roles of men and women through the character that they play out on screen. The director on the other hand is not doing a gender-specific job. So, it is irrelevant if the person who makes a particular film is a man or a woman.

Movie theatre gives a soulful experience.

I feel 95 per cent of Indian boys are mama's boys and a few of them couldn't come out of their mother's shadows. Salman Khan is one of them. I feel one of the reasons he is unable to find a soul mate is he looks for his mother in every girl.

I always wanted to make cinema which will entertain the masses, cinema that could be called escapist but is mounted on a realistic scale with high production values.

I don't think there is anything new left for me in choreography.

‘Main Hoon Na' will always be special since it was my first film but in my subsequent films, I was trying to show off with gimmicks that didn't aid the narrative in any way.

A part of 'Happy New Year' is inspired by western pop culture, the pop music videos of Michael Jackson, Madonna and Duran Duran in the '80s.

I'm happy directing films. On television, the direction takes your entire life away.

At least in films you will go, you shoot for four to five months and then you can take a break. But I know how TV works… the directors are mindblowing, they work non-stop.

I am not anti-men, I believe truly that we are meant to be equal. We should be judged equally and I think I am a living example of feminism.

There are two aspects around which the dynamics of Bollywood revolve - chivalry and chauvinism.

I like to entertain all kinds of audiences with my films.

It's amazing how much the human mind and body can do and achieve.

As an actor, you buy into someone else's dream and make it your own, and you don't lose sight of that.

I think if you believe in an idea, then you should put it out there and be as original to the thought as possible without worrying about the risk.

Nobody is immune to feeling depressed.

I love ice cream and gulab jamuns.

If you were to put me under one umbrella, call me a storyteller.

I am very fond of technology and like to keep pace with change.

Film festivals are important, as they often provide an opportunity to look at a film from a fresh perspective.

Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.

It's only when a project or film doesn't work, that you think about what you could have done differently - whether you chose unwisely, or was there something in your application in that role, as an actor, as a director or as a producer, that you could have done better.

There was a phase when I would just loaf around, doing nothing. It had put my mom under a lot of stress. I knew her stress stemmed from her love for me, yet I never paid attention to her feelings. When it finally hit me that my idleness was taking a toll on her, I was genuinely sad and depressed.

I think it is important to time yourself to make the right choices. It's not responsible to go ahead and say a 'yes' or 'no' on a whim.

The power with which you can create a character is tremendous and probably more satisfying than actually being the person.

I like to make films with characters that resemble real people, about societies that exist.

Fitness is about keeping yourself healthy. This is something you do for yourself and for your loved ones.

If someone has behaved badly with a woman. and she hasn't spoken about it for ten, 20, or 30 years, it's her prerogative when she wants to speak.

Everything I do is gauged under the shadow of 'Dil Chahta Hai.' Even 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' and 'Rock On,' which are very urban films. So I am always seen through that lens.

'Dil Chahta Hai' was too raw. We only thought about the film. We never thought where the film was going to go. We wanted to make a film on our own terms.

'Deewar' has been remade so many times, 'Trishul' has been remade so many times. But 'Don' - no one has gone into this area as often as they have gone into these other movies, and I think it fits into the modern sensibility of movie viewing quite well.

If you are a doctor or farmer, be sincere about your profession. If you can do what you do honestly, you will end up serving your country.

After 'Rock On!,' when I started acting, and I sang in the film, people asked me, 'What was the need to sing in your film?' and things like that. I really don't have an answer for it. In terms of what made me do it? It just felt like the right thing to do.

Indian food beats everything else, in my book. The kinds of cuisine our country offers is just amazing. Every single dish has a variation depending on what region you go to, and that excites me the most about Indian food.

Apart from the highs and lows of when your film releases, there's a strange, addictive quality that making a film has because of all that drama. There's so much that goes on, and we miss it when it's over.