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.

My mom's last name is Bob. My dad's last name is Waksberg. Every time I try to get a ticket at will call, they say last name. And I say, Bob-Waksberg. And I see them looking under W. I go, no, Bob-Waksberg. And they go, no, last name. And I go no, my last name is Bob-Waksberg.

I am a big fan of 'Rick and Morty.'

BoJack Horseman' would make sense in the world of 'Rick and Morty,' but it's hard to imagine Rick and Morty in the world of BoJack.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit' is one of my favorite movies of all time, and in fact it is maybe the first movie that I really loved in an adult way.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

It takes great strength and courage to ask for help.

I think '300 Arguments' is a real tiny wallop of a book. It looks very slim, and at first, each little two-sentence or one-sentence thing kind of stands on its own, but again, as you read it, you get sucked into the momentum of it, and the whole of it is much larger than the sum of its parts in a really beautiful way.

It's something I've seen a lot of: these tortured geniuses, or self-proclaimed tortured geniuses, who kind of take their damage out on others. I think being a showrunner, you have a lot of unchecked power and I think that can be a very dangerous thing.

Any show that kind of relish the damage of its main character without really investigating what that damage does, where it's from or what it means, is a show I think needs to be taken down a peg.

I really believe that comedy is an incredible tool, and you can use it in many ways.

I thought it would be a fun change of pace to do a show about a really sad, depressed character.

I thought it would be fun to make a cartoon about this sad, misanthropic horse.

Saying someone's a fan of animation is as silly as saying someone's a fan of live action. That can mean anything.

I don't know if animation is a style. It's a format.