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.

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 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 like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

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.

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