A Prototype Is Always More

Do You Know How Writers Often Say The Characters Take Over... But That Is More Or Less What It Always Feels Like To Me, Too. Even Though That's Just A Way Of Describing How Your Brain Is Working, It's Still What You Tend To Feel.

You Don't Do Background Music The Way A Lot Of More Conventional Films Do. The Music Is Often Kind Of A Character In Your Films To The Extent That Sometimes You Stop And Watch Someone Perform A Song.

India Is A Place Where One Of The Great Pleasures For A Foreigner Is That You're Constantly Surprised. Everywhere You Look Is Something That Is Either Funny, Or Very Moving, But There Is Always So Much That Is So Unexpected.

A Lot Of People Have Said My Movies Are All The Same. But I Don't Actually Make An Effort To Have A Style. I'm Usually Just Thinking Of What Can We Do To Make It Funnier Or More Interesting Or Just Kind Of Refine It And It Ends Up Like That.

It's Not Usually That Great Of An Idea To Read Lots Of Reviews Of Your Movies, Because Even If Somebody's Saying Nice Things, There'll Still Be Something In There That Pushes The Wrong Button, And It's Not Really That Helpful.