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.

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.

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.

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.

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