Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.

Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn't they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is not the same.

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.