12 August 2009

1. What are your views on getting married?
Ans: It is as bad and as avoidable as doing business in partnership.

2. Are you a judgmental person?
Ans: I hate Judges.

3. I would call your blog “Confessions of a dangerous mind”. What say?
Ans: I would call it “Confessions of truthful mind”. But then truth is dangerous to people who can’t digest truth. What say?

4. Thank God you became a filmmaker. You would have been a real nightmare had you settled in gangs.
Ans: Ha ha! When we were making Company, Jaideep Sahni used to the say the same.

5. I am eagerly waiting for your views on God now compared to your views on the same earlier.
Ans: I have grown wise enough now not to waste my time on God. Any free time I have from my movies I would rather spend that in bed.

6. I am jealous that there is so much of drama and action in your life.
Ans: The drama and action in anyone’s life will be a direct consequence of how he deals with life.

7. Did you really have pirated videos of “Aakhri Raasta”?
Ans: Yes and porn films too.

8. Why fight over the credibility of God when no god will ever come out to prove himself right?
Ans: Brilliant.

9. In spite of your maturity why did you indulge in street fights?
Ans: I got my maturity because of them.

10. Your blog entertains me more than kissing less than f**king.
Ans: Thanks. F**king will finish it and kissing will be too mild. In between somewhere is just about perfect.

11. Your blog is like a porn video.
Ans: I can’t ask for a better compliment than that.

12. What is difference between fear and thrill?
Ans: Fear is what you feel when you are alone in the night and thrill is what you feel when you are rushed down a rollercoaster.

13. Your story is interesting but it has a I, Me, Myself feel.
Ans: That’s me.

14. What is your opinion on strength and confidence?
Ans: Strength is your ability and confidence is about your belief in it.

15. Your blog is nice.
Ans: I am Ok with both making love and f**king. Having sex is what I detest. Kindly do me a favour and not use words as bland as “nice” to describe my blog.

16. Do you consider posters as an art?
Ans: Of course, Yes! Much more artistic than the paintings of the M.F.Hussains of this world. (Will soon write a piece on this.)

17. Why are fools and fanatics more certain than wise people?
Ans: That’s because the former do without thinking and the latter think and don’t do.

18. On background music “Die Hard 1” had a symphony that was copied in Amol Palekar’s song, “Na bole tumne na maine kuch kaha”.
Ans: That song was copied from, not “Die Hard 1”, but from Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr.Strange Love”.

19. A filmmaker is as human as anyone else and if one can make SHIVA, RANGEELA, SATYA, COMPANY etc, he can also have duds like AAG etc.
Ans: Can I kiss you for this pleeeeeeeease?

20. You were lucky enough to be surrounded by intellectuals.
Ans: Well, you can’t fly like an eagle if you are surrounded with turkeys.

21. Have you ever tried drinking vodka with Russian women?
Ans: I have better things to do with women than having vodka with them.

22. What is the unique thing which sets you apart?
Ans: Being uniquely myself.

23. What do you think of children?
Ans: I hate them because whenever they are around they take attention away from me and also they remind me of my age.

24. You seem to have lost respect for the audience?
Ans: How can I loose what I never had?

25. What’s the difference between cheap directors who depend on heroine’s skin show and a special director like you?
Ans: I don’t know what cheap is. For me a really special director is one who can show a heroine’s skin really special.

26. How do you define patience and humbleness?
Ans: Both are non-existent to me.

27. What about people who don’t know what to do with their life?
Ans: By definition they are not living anyway and hence as good as dead for all practical purposes.

28. Why do you give interviews even to B grade websites and channels?
Ans: Well, if I can write a blog for even C-graders like you, then I guess my stupidity is lesser there than here.

29. Do you agree that a woman’s mind is most difficult to understand?
Ans: No, because long time back I realized that there is nothing to understand there.

Other articles by Ram Gopal Varma:
The real HoRROR (about Agyaat reviewers)
Lock-up lessons
My reaction to reactions
The Psychological aspect of BGM

Note: Thanks to Ram Gopal Varma for giving us special permission to republish his blogs in idlebrain.com (visit rgvzoomin.com to visit Ram Gopal Varma's blog)