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.'
'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.
Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.
My films, no one else will do.
I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.
Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.