It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

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.

Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their last film, their next film, their press agent, and their per diems - all these things, they cocoon themselves with and you have to puncture that bubble on each of them to make them be in your film.

I'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances.