[February 2013 - reflecting on his amazing 40-year journey as a successful actor, producer, & director] As an actor, I always felt I could do better but I wasn't getting good roles. [So you cut short an acting career and turned to producing films?] Eventually it's the producer that matters the most in the scheme of things, so slowly I switched over to producing ... it was then that I realized that it is the director who holds the key to the film!

(About Hrithik Roshan): Hrithik's way of working is the only way to make sure the industry moves ahead. He is fiercely focused and forces others around him to be the same.

(December 2000, about his son Hrithik Roshan): I can understand girls, boys, women and men being his fans, but when one-and-a-half and two-year- old children say 'Hrithik' it bewilders me -- how can they decide they like this person called Hrithik at a time when the only thing they can say is 'mama' and 'papa'?