Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.

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've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.

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

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

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 find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.