I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman

The most interesting part of IIFA is that I get to meet filmmakers from India. I just attended a symposium on Satyajit Ray with Rituparno Ghosh and others. It was just so satisfying

My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to change because there are no such things as ideal conditions.

I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore

Even though ashrams... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.

I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.