No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.

I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.

There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.

Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and the screenplay of Simon (Beaufoy) and I was reading it, even before the shoot, some kind of sounds came into my mind and I put some stuff [down] and sent it to Danny when he was cutting the movie.

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.

Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.