1. Your movies and attitude show no sign of positive-ness.
Ans: And your views on the same show no sign of positive-ness either.
2. What inspires you to resort to such radical compositions and oblique camera angles?
Ans: Anything and everything are the same to all people. The way one individual chooses to look at it is what which makes it look different. That is the way I choose to look at things.
3. Do you read philosophy? What are your preferences?
Ans: I was very influenced by Marxism in my early days till I discovered Ayn Rand. But the fact that one reading of Fountainhead could destroy years of my belief in communism drove home a point to me that when you believe in something or agree, it's only valid till you hear something else which could undermine what you believed until then. So I went on to read Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche among others. Finally after the entire exercise, Nietzsche in terms of his intensity of thought and belief, and Ayn Rand in terms of logic and rationality stayed with me.
The sum learning of mine of applied philosophy is best quoted in this line from Ayn Rand's 'The Romantic Manifesto' ' 'The pursuit of truth is not important. What is important is the pursuit of that truth which helps you in reaching your goal', that is of course provided if you have a goal in the first place to start with. Most of us don't have a goal. We wish for things but we rarely will ourselves to achieve them.
The German philosopher Schopenhauer in his book 'The World As Will and Idea' said 'you see with your eyes, you hear with your ears, you feel with a touch, and all these senses are nothing but functions of your mind which is nothing but a thought which is an idea.' So the fact you are interacting with me or doing anything with anybody or anything else could be just a figment of your imagination. Thereby if you close your eyes and go to sleep, I and they and everything in the world cease to exist. And when you open your eyes in the morning the world comes back to you and this is the truth for not only you but every living being, and it comes back in different shapes, forms and emotional states for each and every life form on the planet.
Applying this theory of Schopenhauer, I identified a world of my own which is filled with my kind of music, my kind of films, my kind of people, gangsters, ghosts, girls with sexy bums etc. If anybody chooses to visit it, they might like some, dislike some or completely reject. It's their choice, but I surely am not going to leave my world until I leave this world.
4. Can you differentiate between making love, fu***ng and having sex?
Ans: Making love is an emotional experience which makes you feel a high about your love and yourself. Fu***ng is an intense experience which borders on a feeling of wanting to conquer or achieve. And having sex is a necessity like to sneeze or to cough.
5. For what part of life do you do things you decide and what part does life decide for you?
Ans: My life only belongs to things that I decide because even if life decides some things for me, I immediately decide something else on top of life's decisions so that they again become my decisions. The bottom line is that, I don't listen to life.
6. Why are you using such derogatory language and calling it a metaphor?
Ans: This is meant for evolved people and people who understand metaphor. If you don't qualify, do yourself a favour and don't come back into this space.
7. All your leading ladies got similar personalities.
Ans: That's the way I like my women, buddy.
8. What is wrong with Fellini's films?
Ans: I have no idea who he is?
9. Relationships are just love and not need. Your mother won't love you for need.
Ans: For your information my mother gave up on me when I was in the 5th standard. And just in case, if you start off on a psycho analytical trip on that be informed that I hate friends, mother's love, dogs, kids and flowers. Friends because I don't need them, and mother's love because I hate being fawned, dogs and kids because they take away attention from me and flowers because they remind me that keep forgetting to get them for my girl friend. And hello just in case you are about to hire a battery of psychiatrists realize that the whole above thing is just half a joke. Just try and figure out which half.
10. Please be humble to the audience because without them you are nothing.
Ans: Ok Guruji, why stop at just being humble. For my next film I will build a temple for them and pray to them. Will you please become my pujari?
11. Why was the camera lingering for so long on Hanuman's poster in Phoonk?
Ans: Maybe they were lovers in their past birth.
