My biggest fear in life is to be average.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].

There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.