I'm looking to do an honest job, and I don't have any Indian talk show as a reference point. I'm not looking down on them, but I want to do what Oprah did.

I think if you laugh at your troubles and tell the whole world what went wrong, you can't be frightened by anything.

I speak for Kashmiri pundits because injustice has been done to them, and the political discourse doesn't give them enough importance.

I don't think that I will say that we are less talented in Bollywood, but our functioning is different. We cater to a different kind of audience.

I love being the person my kids depend on to learn. Everything they learn, for the most part, comes from you - how they treat people, how they look at the world, how they process things. I love being that example for them, just like my parents were for me.

The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.

You can't take a coal miner making $95,000 a year, the only work in these parts where you can support a family without having to hold down three jobs at once... and tell them, 'You can make minimum wage,' or, 'We can give you job training for jobs that don't exist in West Virginia.'

The Canadian circle in L.A. is really close. There's a magnet effect where we all just huddle together somehow. It's one big Canadian family, really.