When you film a reality show, it's so jumbled. They shoot episodes in all orders!
I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.
The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience.
The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.
It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.
I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.
The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.
Every film may not be appropriate for a theatrical release, and the theatrical business is not a very good business for anybody except the distributor.
Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.
The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.
The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.
I do not consider myself a feminist. I do not believe that by doing female-oriented films that depict a woman fighting the system, we can change the system.
If you really want to see something scary, turn on the nightly news. To me, for people to say 'look at the films' is ludicrous. The world we live in needs to change.
Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
