Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done. I'm interested in finding people who I think have a voice - and a very specific voice.

You dont know someone until you know what they want.

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.