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.

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.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

I think one of my favorite things about making low budget movies is that when you get into expensive moviemaking territory, it's almost impossible not to reverse engineer the movies. It's irresponsible not to think about the result and the financial result. But when you make low budget movies, you can put that out of your head.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

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