Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

An outsider can see some things much better.

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.

Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening.

Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption.

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

It's always sad to me when certain people are excluded from being considered beautiful... because of someone else's expectation. That bothers me.

This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.

Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

We had a lot of rehearsals for the original Twilight to get the family to learn each other and experience each other, so we could all be like a family. We spent a lot of time together.