When you have children your own hypocrisy becomes more apparent because you're telling them how to behave, and you're not behaving like that yourself. So it obliges one to really go in and try to look at why there is a huge gulf between how one knows one wants to behave and how one actually does behave.

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

There is a Steve [Jobs] that Apple would like to actually present to the public. They have a character, Steve, and they want to keep that story going. And it's very important that writers challenge that occasionally and not just trust their parent companies to tell them.

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

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

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

Movies are about time. You can take that momentum and manipulate time as well, or you can deliberately slow it down, stop it, and start it again. There is no other art form that does that type of manipulation in that way.