Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

I don't torture myself. And I do the work because of the pleasure involved. I'm satisfying a compulsion I find nigh-on irresistible. It's not necessarily because of the work itself. I just feel the need for a period of regeneration afterwards. Like leaving a field fallow when you've grazed too much on it. I feel depleted.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.