My films, no one else will do.
Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.
In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.
I'm the bullheaded type, and I really don't give up if I fall in love.
What's nice about what we have is when you enter the set, the world of film, it becomes this real cocoon, very different from all the publicity. That's the fun part.
I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.
I'm not interested in passion and love for their own sake - without the struggle of life, they're just fluff.
Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.
Once 9/11 happened, people who looked like me and whose children looked like us and whose husbands looked of a community, really were made to feel quite the other, and I thought that was impossible in a city like New York but I myself was witness to that.
I am Indian, and my home is Kampala. My world is already diverse. But films are financed by those who want to see themselves on screen, and it is a white male world. Still, it does feel like America is waking up. Let's hope it's the start of an avalanche.
