I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.
“I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.”
“Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.”