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

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.

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

The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.

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

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to 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.