As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions.

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.

I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.

We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)

Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where we can never go back to.

The pursuit of the perfect then is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

The world [is] now seeing might is right.

Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out what we're thinking." And sometimes that happens.

We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

I do think that the fear mentality - of scarcity - comes from within.

Necessity is the author of change.

Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.