I feel bad when my film flops.
I worked for many years as a writer for children and then wrote two adult novels of the kind they call 'literary' without any very great disturbance to this kind of life. Then, something went wrong. My third adult novel was rejected by the publisher of the first two. And I could not understand the criticism offered.
In 2006, I started making a film called 'Restraint of Beasts.' While I was making it, I had a personal disaster. My wife fell ill, so we stopped shooting halfway through. And then sadly, my wife died.
It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.
When 'Fitoor' didn't work, it affected me a lot. It hurts when a film doesn't do well.
'Paul's Boutique' was a bust, right? That was a bummer. We didn't pause on it for a long time - we didn't go through therapy - but it was weird. And because it was a bust, we didn't go on tour.
The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.
My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.
They botched 'Raise the Titanic' so badly that I waited 20 years to do it again.
I was supposed to direct a film on Gautam Buddha. That didn't work out. A pity, because the entire script had been written. It was in English.
I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.
After 'Ra.One,' 'Cash,' 'Tum Bin 2' did not work, I almost lost my confidence as a director.
My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.
I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.
I turned in a script that meant a lot to me and an executive at Warner Bros said he was disappointed in me. I took a hit of confidence and stepped away from film-making for some time.
I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.
Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
