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

It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.

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

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

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

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.

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.