"I am awestruck and I am happy to see that the book fair happens. I’ve learnt everything I know on the go, like my mot…"

"I have great respect for the unconditional teachers called books. Because from a book, you can either learn, or you c…"

"Direction is a lot of responsibility. But if you've been trained under Balachander as I have, it's a lot easier. You …"

"He is a cool cat. I was surprised when he had a heart problem...People think my film with Mani, ‘Nayakan’, is my best…"

"Here are his earlier letters to me, that I've framed. I call them ‘my degrees’."

"“Propaganda films I am against,” Kamal Haasan said at a presser in Abu Dhabi, adding, “It’s not enough if you just wr…"

"I receive them only when he thinks I deserve it — I have to work for them!"

"I had to read it out to my sister, who was witness to my early dark days, when my mother was afraid what would happen…"

"I use the word ‘guru' for him in the mythological sense — all other educationists ask for payment for knowledge impar…"

"For two and a half years, I rigorously trained seven to eight hours a day in two disciplines of dance but moved on to…"