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“Because if there's anything patriarchy hurts, it's men. We are just the symptoms. We just get, there's just domestic violence and rape and violence of all kinds against women, yes. But who really suffers, who never has an outlet, who never has the strength to …”

“Mark my words, in the next two years, India is going to be the cancer capital of the world as well.”

“We're seeing that in the current geopolitical world, and, ah, I want to say the countries that are so far isolated, not just from economic, ah, flux, but from war, from terrorism, from recession, they have female leaders. When we look at the Scandic countries,…”

“The currently, the thing is, oh, you know, we can give 500 crores for a big actors film, and then we'll make thousand crores. More likely to lose that 506 hundred crores, because it doesn't end there. India has a very high exhibitor tax. You're better off inve…”

“Till the 19 seventies, I think in all of South India, there was like three recorded cases of cancer.”

“Again, the West is doing this. It's a new form of colonization. And we will use water from India to cool off data centers, data that they will use in the West.”

“When you exist in this kind of a industry for a long time, you realize, ah, actors, especially female actors, have, ah they don't have the kind of power that I really wanted. And to have more creative agency over my, ah, destiny as an artist, I wanted to becom…”

“So, yeah, I think Women's Day exists to bring to make noise about women's issues. Yeah. But there really is nothing called a woman's issue.”

“I would like to call a spade a spade and say, if the celeb has a decent IQ, please listen to them. Unfortunately, due to social media, anybody can become a star. So you have podcasters and YouTubers who may not have read a single book in their life.”

“Because I understood very early on, ah, that the premium is on youth. And then the youth fades, which it does for everyone. And then the same people are like, 30 and 35 only just, and considered over the hill.”

“It exports between six hundred million to seven hundred million dollars worth of goods everywhere to the world.”

“The reason the farmers keep protesting is because, I mean, does India have a food scarcity problem? I don't think so. You constantly see visuals of, ah, you know, farmers, ah, destroying their own crop. Matlab, biste ton piyaaz kisi na highway pe pheg diya, gu…”

“In China, TikTok pushes out content about robotics, about aeronautics, about science.”

“Like, if a billionaire truly wants legacy, don't, you know, collect climate credits. Make a village where everyone can be fed, where there's enough place to grow your own crops, and to irrigate the land. Be in this thing with nature, and that is actually true …”

“The artist is not very separate from somebody who has a historical overview, and the producer is not somebody who's separate from someone who could have gotten into academics. Everything requires you to use your brain.”

“If you, ah, if you're gonna talk to Shabana Azmi or Nazeeruddin Shah, who I deeply admire, as actors from like a, you know, generation, two generations away, ah, they will tell you that independent films will give you a lot of satisfaction and a lot of love an…”

“I mean, I have some clear rules. I won't do propaganda, even though that's the current thing. And I won't do anything that really demeans women.”

“So that belt has the largest concentration of handwork, embroidery in the world.”

“I'm not going to go to a platform, because then they have a stake in the IP with me. I don't want to do that. It's something I've written. It's something that I want to complete editorial freedom with. So, I'll put it on a platform of my choice, where I get to…”

“I think we're gonna have a crisis where people are finding it hard to articulate their thoughts into words because language is getting extinguished, and then also writing.”

“In China, TikTok, you cannot access, if you're a, if you're under a certain age, you can't access TikTok. Like, when it's time to sleep, it's not available to you.”

“I have my own filters. I'm not gonna do a fairness brand. I'm not gonna do fast weight loss drug thing. I'm not gonna sell a, you know what do you call it, PCOD diet to somebody when I'm not a doctor. I'm not gonna sell a fitness supplement that's full of suga…”

“Bangalore has gone from 34% tree cover to six percent.”

“You know what a developed country is where rich people take public transport. A developed country is not where poor people can buy one four wheeler.”

“All the employees that were killed in the 2611 attack at the Taj Hotel in Bombay, the company continued to pay their salaries till their normal, it continues to pay their salaries to their families till their normal average working life would have permitted th…”

“For instance, say Vidya Balan, and she still has a thriving, lovely career, because she also understood this fact, and the onus was on her as Vidya, not just as a young actor who is, you know, going ahead and doing Hum Panch or Dirty Picture or whatever, you k…”

“Actually this is the one department in which women's participation is the lowest. Like, the gaffing department.”

“When we were doing research to crew up for girls who will be girls, we realized there's all but one female gaffer.”

“With girls for, girls will be girls, I broke even.”

“Dangal made money here, and it made thousand crores in China.”

“The only downside I feel now is that the algorithm decides, like, if as a new mom, for instance, I start talking about postpartum depression, which is a very real thing, you know, that you have a child already. So, I'm saying, if I start speaking about it on m…”