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.

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

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

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.

I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla.

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.

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.