On His Hiatus:
“This is my natural pace of working. RDB came three years after my first film Aks. I’m coming after two and half years with Dilli 6. After Aks, I was un-learning my mistakes. My biggest shortcoming in Aks was the screenplay. It has taken me six years to understand the concept of the screenplay. Now I know the most imperative part of my creative system is to know what needs to be gotten out on screen. The urge to make a film should be like an obsession. Dilli 6 is the one I’m dying to make now.”
On his off-beat films:
“I’ve great faith in the audience. It has always shown a great deal of maturity. In fact, we the filmmakers are also the audience. Why do we forget that? Audiences aren’t some species from outer space or a symbolic unidentifiable mass of people. The minute you isolate yourself from the audience, the film won’t work. Cinema is all that I do, apart from swimming.”
On Dilli 6 Cast:
“The casting has been a journey. My first and instinctive choice for the part was Abhishek Bachchan. And I met him right after RDB. Then the dates didn’t work out. We decided to come together for a later film. But, fortunately for our movie, it finally worked out. But, it wasn’t as though I was just waiting. I kept working on the script. We tried to get other actors. But the role belonged to Abhishek.”
On Choosing Sonam Kapoor:
“Once I saw the promos of Saawariya, I saw my heroine jump out of the screen. That was enough for me to call her and her father Anil Kapoor. Then when I saw Saawariya, I was completely convinced of my decision.”
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