“Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time.”

“Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.”

“I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan, and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine,' 'X Men,' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.”

“I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.”

“Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.”

“I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.”

“I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.”

“What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.”

“Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.”