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

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

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

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.

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.