When I have a new idea, I'm charged up and want to start the film immediately, but I simply don't have the patience to wait for stars.

I don't think I have the patience required to undertake projects as huge as 'Baahubali.' You need to spend a lot of time and years to make something empowering like that.

Since everyone has a mouth, everyone will have an opinion.

I don't have the time to think about what someone else thinks of me because I'm busy making films.

Everyone can have a crush on anyone, be it on a real person or a celebrity.

It is none of anyone's business how I make my films or my creative partnerships.

I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.

I put a lot of time and energy into studying the art of filmmaking, but I hadn't put a lot of energy or time into the art of learning how to manage people.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.