Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

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 would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

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.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.