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.

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.

You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'

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've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.