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

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.

In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.

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

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

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

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