You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.

I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I've made.

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

Culturally, I found myself in a very weird situation: you were the person that had made that journey to the West, and then you were going back to comment on something, and then suddenly you were questioned and told, "You can't touch that now because you're a pop star."

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.

In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.