Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

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

There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

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.

I'm so from the Woody Allen/Spike Lee school.