What Is Really Important To Me Is

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

I Grew Up In A Small Town In India, But Through Books I Knew The World.

I Am Still Attracted To Stories About People Who Are Considered To Be On The Outside Of Society. I Still Seek Inspiration From Those Stories.

You Know, The Sad Thing Of Post-9/11, Which Was Of Course Horrific, Was That The City In Which I Felt Completely At Home For Two Decades, Suddenly People Like Us - Brown People - Were Looked At As The 'others.'

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