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.

Once the script is done, I put it aside for a month. I start thinking of all the films that have influenced me, which I have liked for different reasons, and not necessarily the look, but films that have moved me. Some very strange films came to mind.

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

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.

While we're working on the script, I never see any films. I make it a point because I don't want to get distracted. I don't want to be influenced, and before I know it, have somebody say, "My God, she plagiarized that line."

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