I do think the moral line you walk all the time about putting something in for the sake of the film and not being affected by people's lives is a very tough one.
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I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.
People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.
I don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tries to hide my mess.
You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.
The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, 'That was a nice movie.' But if you can cause people to walk out and then argue about the film on the sidewalk... I think we're all seeking dissension, and we love to affect an audience.
I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.
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