When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

Is birth always a fall?

Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.