The Cold-audition Process Is Not A Science,

One Of My Great All-time Loves In Cinema, And I've Seen It Three Times, Is Bondarchuk's 'war And Peace.' Not A Lot Of People May Have Seen That Film. It Was Made During The Soviet Era.

Accept Certain Inalienable Truths.

There's A Whole System In Hollywood Where The Director Never Speaks To The Studio, But I Like To Engage Them In A Discussion. I Listen.

To Be Honest, There Is A Tourists' Trail; My Family Had A Farm And A Gas Station, And You Can Go And See My Birthplace, Though Where I Lived Is Actually Under A Freeway Now.

Western Films Don't Do Very Well In India.