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I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.

I've liked most of the films that I've been in and those are the kinds of films I like to see.

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

Seven out of my nine films were hits. 80 per cent of the audience loves my films; the remaining 20 per may be right in their opinion, but that doesn't make me wrong. If I try too hard to woo them, I'd be cheating my core audience.

I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then.

Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.

At some level, I feel it is nice to know that a film of yours is doing well at the box office and has also got great reviews. That feels like success.