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

It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now.

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

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.

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

My films, no one else will do.

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