I Grew Up In A Small Town

I Always Like To Reveal The Fact That The Emperor Has No Clothes. And Children Are Best At That. They Teach Us How To See The World In That Sense. They Are Without Artifice; They See It For What It Is. I Am Drawn To That Ruthless Honesty.

You've Got To Understand That In Bollywood, Every Actor Is An Instrument, And Yet A Human Being. They Come To The Set With A Set Agenda, Believing, 'this Is Who I Am, This Is What I Want, And No, I Am Not Going To Become That Character You Want Me To.'

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.

Never Treat Anything You Do As A Stepping Stone. Do It Fully, And Follow It Completely.

I Am An Independent Film-maker First And Foremost. I Have Always Cut My Own Cloth.