I'm a good Indian girl, I still don't do sex scenes in my movies because my mum would kill me!

- Gurinder Chadha

After 'Bhaji On The Beach', I didn't make a movie for six years. I couldn't get a movie off the ground for love nor money. It was a very tough time a…

- Gurinder Chadha

The reason I do what I do is that I find that Asian community gives me an endless source of humour. When I entered the filmmaking business, my whole …

- Gurinder Chadha

It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are; you have to be able to express the big idea of a film in a sentence or two.

- Gurinder Chadha

When you have a baby you start thinking of death cuz' you see the opposite of life. I've calmed down now but for the first or two years, I kept think…

- Gurinder Chadha

Well, I think there was a time when I first started that there was such a thing called 'a woman's film' and there were certain scripts that women wou…

- Gurinder Chadha

If a good actor wants a role, they'll do whatever it takes to get the part. Directors are the same. We do 'meetings', not auditions: that tells you a…

- Gurinder Chadha

It is hard directing. The hours are terrible and you have to sort of suspend your life when you're in production. So, being a mother is very hard. I …

- Gurinder Chadha

There was a time when I first started that there was such a thing called 'a woman's film' and there were certain scripts that women would make. But I…

- Gurinder Chadha