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Raman Raghav' was shot on location, but there are many stylistic things in it. I like this mixture of documentary and extreme stylization.

For me, 'Badlapur' is a terrifically emotional film.

The stories I read or get attracted to have a kind of thrill element, or a crime.

Ek Hasina Thi' is a love story that went sour.

Like you don't watch 'Octopussy' or any Bond film for the story. You see it for the smart lines, the glamour, the overall package.

Frankly, you cannot match the action in a Bond or a Bourne film. Forget budgets, it needs an expertise which I probably lacked.

If it’s a Hindi film, it has to have a Hindi title.

I love songs but am inhibited to have my characters burst out to express themselves through songs. I use the route of using old songs at the right places.

Songs definitely add to the excitement about a movie.

Badlapur' has got an excellent soundtrack even though it wasn’t planned at all in the beginning.

When I started watching movies, I saw a lot of Hitchcock films. When I was 10, I saw 'North by Northwest' and movies like that.

Badlapur' is a drama, a character-driven story. It is not so much about plot.

With 'Badlapur', I wasn’t even thinking about casting. I was wondering whether any producer will want to make a film with a story like this. It is not your expected, feel-good, or even your regular thriller.

There’s this film called 'The Pledge', with Jack Nicholson in it. Now that’s a dark film.

As a filmmaker, I tilt towards stories which are crime-led.

Right from childhood, I have enjoyed films which belong to the thriller genre. As a kid, I would read novels written by Agatha Christie and James Hadley Chase.

I wanted to make films, but the films being made in the 1990s were not my kind. I couldn’t break in, and even if I did manage to get a foothold, I didn’t know what I would make.

People don’t know what filmmaking is even after they have made ten films.

There are certain actors I think I can approach whenever I am working on something and Shah Rukh is one of those. He's somebody whom I'd love to work with.

Unless the movie is about to release, I don't like to be in the limelight. Then I have no choice, but after that you have to get back.

I'm not a social person. I don't like parties. I like small groups, we discuss ideas in my office.

When you are working on a real story it is your responsibility to get everything right and stay as true and authentic as possible.

People often get caught in situations or do something that they regret for the rest of their lives. What happens and how you try to cover up is the story. These are not career criminals.

We all are scared of bad things… So when you are watching a film, you see your fears on the screen.

Only three or four thrillers are made in Hindi cinema in a year. There is a fascination for crime genre but producers think thrillers don’t have that much of a market or will not get picked up for satellite rights.

I believe thrillers work if the story is good. It is not easy to make a thriller because the audience is making their own story in their minds as they watch the film. You have to break that expectation and still make them like the film.

I am partial to thrillers but if somebody gives me a script like 'King's Speech' to do, I would love to do it too.

I would not have been interested in doing just a revenge film simply because I have seen so many revenge films right from Clint Eastwood films to Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Zanjeer’, ‘Sholay’ and ‘Ghayal’ and various variants of them.

When people watch good films they want other films to be of that calibre as well particularly when you cater to the same core audience.

Hollywood thrillers give away almost 70 percent of the story in promos but still the film remains interesting. In India we do a lot of cuts and put in songs in promos to create an impact.

In love stories you have to establish the mood and then you can go on. Writing thrillers are difficult because every scene needs a twist. May be comedy is even more difficult but I have no experience of it.

My second film ‘Johnny Gaddar’ got delayed because of financial reasons. The film was taken over by another production house and in the process we lost a year.

With ‘Agent Vinod’, there was a lot of chaos with schedules and the film took a year and a half to shoot.

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