When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them anyway!

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.

I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.

I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

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.