Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.

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

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.

People who come to see my movies, you're coming to see a drama masquerading as a genre piece.

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

I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.

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.