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.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

I consider myself an independent filmmaker.

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?

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.

I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.

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