A good script can come from anywhere.

I am very bad with numbers.

I would love to do an action film. In college, I have played a lot of aggressive characters.

My son had seen 'Dum Laga Ke Haisha,' but he wasn't happy about it because my father bullies me in the film.

I have done a lot of street theatre and plays and interacted with the public through radio and television.

You have to have a macro outlook, see the film in totality, whether it will resonate with people or not.

Life is the biggest workshop: you have to observe life. You have to be one with the milieu more than anything else.

For me, novelty matters; uniqueness matters.

It's good to be an outsider.

I approach every film as my first film.

I have certain viewpoints that come out in certain shayaris.

I always thought millennials are going westward, and they probably won't understand vernacular poetry.

I was very immature when I married.

In theatre, you learn the story is more important than the actor.

I was very nervous as a child and had stage fright.

I couldn't be a conventional commercial actor without being a star-kid. That kind of a big film needs a certain mounting, a little paraphernalia around you. And nobody would give me that.

I am the public, a boy from Chandigarh who's bought tickets in black and revered films since childhood, and when I choose scripts, I take out the garb of an actor-slash-star, and I consume the script as a layman.

It is good to be a young father, a young parent. You have that energy, and you are growing up with them.

Being a young parent, you can play cricket, football, and I can play chess with my son. In fact, he plays the piano better than I do.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

I'm inspired by Walt Disney. I'm inspired by Howard Hughes. I'm inspired by Henry Ford. I'm inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I'm inspired by James Perse.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life...do that.