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

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.

People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.

There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

I storyboard every shot of my thrillers in general. I draw them out and do them.

My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.