It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

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

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.

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

What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.

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

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.