In summers, while growing up in India, we often slept in the courtyard under the stars.

You are just your intelligence.

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

The journey matters as much as the goal.

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.

One of the benefits of doing low-budget movies is you don't have to release them wide to recoup. You can release it in a smaller way, make your money back, and keep going.

I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.