I enjoy making all kinds of films. I love action films, war films, period films, adventure films.

I have only one simple ambition when I make a film. That it should be the best I have made so far. With 'Kadal' it was no different.

Sometimes casting falls in place easily and sometimes it takes a while. Fifty per cent of my job is done when I get the right actors.

My job as a director is to communicate, and I want to communicate to all.

In college - while figuring the things out that most people do in college - I had no game. No confidence. I had Birkenstocks. And overalls. A budding romance novel addiction. But no cool. No poise. I was trying on a thousand different personalities, but a lot of them were formed by the perceptions of others.

Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted nor needed.

One day it hit me: Truest friends, God bless their hearts, could not care less. They love you, they're pleased you're getting married and, ultimately, they don't give a fig how you get it done.

When I got married, my marriage was illegal in 17 states because my husband had a different skin color than I did. And we saw those laws go down one at a time.