There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

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

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.

You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.

People who come to see my movies, you're coming to see a drama masquerading as a genre piece.