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Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.

I truly believe in cinema's potential for cultural impact. I have a clear idea what I want to do - to enrich people's lives.

When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.

My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.

It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.