They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'

I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla.

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

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

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

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.