My Family Is Almost Exactly Like The

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.

Every Film Is A Political Act; It's How You See The World.

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

I Look For The Humanity In People, However Big The Politics Or Oppressive The Situation May Be, Whether It's Subsumed Within A Human Being Or Between Two Human Beings. I Want To Help Us Hold A Mirror To Ourselves.

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.