I'm a proud FILMMAKER, but EVERYONE seems to have forgotten that. You're introduced, and someone will SAY, 'Arrey! Karan Johar! He does talk shows! He's judge!' And now my filmmaking has been lost, all my other ACCOMPLISHMENTS forgotten.

There's no Marvel list. As a filmmaker, you are not only ENCOURAGED, but you are really supported to let your voice shine through. You have total freedom to push, scratch the surface and TRY THINGS.

If we WALK AWAY thinking and having learned SOMETHING, that as a filmmaker is what I SET out to do.

I was just MAKING movies to MAKE movies. I was so FULL of anxiety about becoming a filmmaker that I kind of lost the IDEA of why I was doing it.

For a struggling filmmaker RUNNING LOW on IDEAS, public domain is all we have for adapting BOOKS.

I remember when I told my parents that I WANTED to be a filmmaker, and no longer was I planning to be a doctor, one of the FIRST THINGS my mom said to my dad was: 'This is your fault. You WATCHED too many movies.'

The SINGLE most eye-opening EXPERIENCE for me and what propelled me to become a filmmaker was that I started to see FILMS from other countries.

I suppose every filmmaker, at LEAST the filmmakers I really like, are amateur psychologists to a DEGREE. Or they COME from a psychological approach, I guess.