We All Know The Power Of Film;

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.

It's Only At This Age That I Can Say The Word 'art' Without Flinching.

If We Don't Tell Our Own Stories, No One Else Will.

I've Loved 'vanity Fair' Since I Was 16 Years Old. You Know, We're All Colonial Hangovers In India, Steeped In English Literature. It Is One Of These Novels That I Read Under The Covers At My Convent Boarding School In Simla.

My Family Is Almost Exactly Like The One In 'monsoon Wedding'. We Are Very Open, Fairly Liberal, Loud People.