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.

If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.

Saw #‎ Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

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 super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.