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

"I prepare even for a conversation with him — I never want to say too little or too much. And, I never disturb him exc…"

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