I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.

When you're doing a live-action movie, you have your day set up and you're going to do this shot and this shot, and eventually the sun is going to go down. It's a sequential race to whatever is going to end the day.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected. That's part of the reason why people who like it tend to love it.