You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.

I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.

I'm the only one responsible for the choices I make and the opportunities I get. When you read the script, you don't know how it's going to shape up. You just know what you've been narrated.

You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.

I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Art is anything you can get away with.

You can't rush an art form.