I am awestruck and I am happy to see that the book fair happens. I’ve learnt everything I know on the go, like my mother tongue. - Kamal Haasan

I prepare even for a conversation with him — I never want to say too little or too much. And, I never disturb him except when I feel I've done something worthwhile. It's a rare relationship — unconditional and [professional]].

Propaganda films I am against," Kamal Haasan said at a presser in Abu Dhabi, adding, "It's not enough if you just write 'true story' at the bottom as a logo. It has to really be true, and that (the film) is not true.

It is wrong to celebrate 100 years of cinema with just India. It is 100 years of cinema for Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka. All these places saw Indian cinema as it was produced in Lahore, Mumbai, Chennai — it went all the way. It is 100 years of cinema of what used to be my India, my Pakistan, my Afghanistan and my Sri Lanka. That’s how an artist looks at it and it’ll soon be my world. It is the governments and political interests that create borders.