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

My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.

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.

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.