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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different. ”
I don't consider Mumbai-Delhi as India. The grass-rooted diversity of U.P.-Bihar is the real India. ”
From my experience, I can affirm that I don't really know how the women see the world like, but it seems to be quite different from how men do. ”
There is no one-size-fits-all process. It differs from character to character and priority to priority. Every project has a different priority, and you have to be agile enough physically as well as mentally to shift from one character to another. I think I am fairly decent in that. ”
I like to make something different and interesting. ”
Making realistic films is basically about the style. ”
Udta Punjab' is a story of four different people merged together. There are four different stories and four different perspectives. ”
The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing. ”
The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters. ”
I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking. ”