'salaam Bombay' Didn't Put A Halo On

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

Post 9/11, So Much Has Changed In New York That It Does Not Give You That Homely Feeling Which It Did Before.

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.

We All Know The Power Of Film; We All Know There's Almost Nothing More Powerful Than To See People On Film That Look And Talk Like You, Like We Do.

We Have To Realize Only In Communication, In Real Knowledge, In Real Reaching Out, Can There Be An Understanding That There's Humanity Everywhere, And That's What I'm Trying To Do.