I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.

Let's get something straight - I don't see myself as beautiful.

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.