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.

Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

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.

Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience.