Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life.

Tom had encouraged me and been an inspiration to me.

A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different.

I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.

I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.