All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'

I think when you have doubts, you just say no.

I don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.

More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.