An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my own personal fulfillment.