Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

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.

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

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.

It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.

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.

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