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Your lineage and surname become irrelevant after your first film. Audiences do not care.

We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences.

Our actors are crossing borders and now so are our stories. And that is what I saw in 'Bachaana.' The film is light and easy.

With the birth of social media, a film gets left behind if the actors don't go and present their film and energy to the public.

I would love to work for the Indian Film Fraternity if the role offered suits my sensibilities.

In fact, sometimes when a short film is done well, you wish that it could be slightly longer.

I don't think any of my previous films could hold a light to 'Visaranai.' It is a film that can never be remade. We've all worked very hard on it.

As an actor, I should be able to work in any kind of film, even preachy ones, and convince you about that character. I should be willing to go into any box.

A serious film should have lots of humour.

Even when close friends want me to play a character in their film, I take it up only when it just cannot be turned down.

Some actors don a woman's role briefly during the course of a film but they make it a point to appear as a man.

I usually don't prepare for a role. I eat well, go to the gym and show up on the set. But it's different when I'm directing a film - I don't sleep the entire night before the shoot.

I would take a bed sheet and go to the cinema theatre, spread the sheet outside and lie there and 'listen' to the film.

In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broadway, and they show the film all the time on cable over there, so people recognise you.

I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky living in London that you can do all that - in New York and L.A., there's more of a structure for film in L.A. and theatre in New York. In London, our industry is smaller, but it produces brilliant work all in one place.

Whenever I'm offered a film, I think of a Friday and ask myself if I would go and watch that film or not.

After a film like Wajah Tum Ho, when you don't get the kind of work that you want, you also think 'why.'

You see everyone today is doing bold roles and no film is made without endless kissing scenes, that too with A-list stars.

I went to art school, wanting to be a painter and then I got into photography. Then it was movies, and I liked the images. One of the things that interested me in film was that I was communicating in images. That was something I did intuitively and could not even talk about until I started having to do interviews.

Back in '98 or so when I was in film school I was working on lighting for a movie in Georgia, out in the middle of nowhere at a gas station. Inside the gas station they had a bunch of old home remedies like castor oil, and one of them was a protein supplement called Beef, Iron & Wine. I just dropped the Beef part.

I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.