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.

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

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.

My films, no one else will do.

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.