You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.

You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.

I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them anyway!

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 find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

When you say fear of the unknown, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and its genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because were not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

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.