Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.
What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.
My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.
Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.
I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.
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.