"Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there"

"Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic"

"I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother"

"Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages"

"I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970"

"My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population"