My Films, No One Else Will Do.

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.

Never Take No For Answer, And Try To Make Films That Turn You On.

They Say Now In America That Final Cut Doesn't Mean Anything. As Harvey Weinstein Said To Some Film-maker, 'you Can Have Final Cut. I'll Open Your Film In Arkansas.'

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.

'salaam Bombay' Didn't Put A Halo On The Poor. Instead, It Said That They Will Teach Us How To Live.