If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.

The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets inverted sometimes.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.