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

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.

When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.

The last Bollywood movie I watched was 3 Idiots that featured Aamir Khan in it. It was impressive!

I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all