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

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

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.'

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.

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.