Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.

Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

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

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.

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

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.