I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

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.

It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.

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.