When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.

I always believe that my films should give some hope to the man who comes to watch them for those three hours. If he goes home on an optimistic note, I would feel satisfied at having done my duty.

I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one.

There are only two types of cinema - good or bad.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

What is the point of making the film if the man doesn't marry the girl?

You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing.

I'm not making films just to be bold.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

If things go wrong, you don't have to accept you made a bum decision.

The bougainvillea hung about it, purple and magenta, in livid balloons.

Just stay real and stay a real person.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Sun shines with its light; flowers shine with their beauties and men shine with their goodnesses.

Keep thinking, keep interested, keep praying, keep dreaming. Be mentally sensitive at all times so that the magic word that motivates you may one day speak to your deep inner self.

As an actor, I feel like youre asked to live life as vibrantly as possible.

Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.