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.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

If you can have a great story that people can follow the mystery and get the suspense, and then you have those moments of tension and a splash of visual fun, then you kind of get everything. You get your money's worth.

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, but I grew up with a lot of opportunities that many people don't have.