We All Know The Power Of Film;

We All Know The Power Of Film; We All Know There's Almost Nothing More Powerful Than To See People On Film That Look And Talk Like You, Like We Do.

It Gave Me A Lot Of Pleasure And Pride That 90 Percent Of The Crew For 'monsoon Wedding,' And Most Of My Film, Are Women. We Get The Work Done, You Know, Much Lesser Play Of Ego... And I Really Believe In Harmony, I Believe In Working In A Spirit Of Egolessness And That The Film Is Bigger Than All Of Us.

You Know, The Sad Thing Of Post-9/11, Which Was Of Course Horrific, Was That The City In Which I Felt Completely At Home For Two Decades, Suddenly People Like Us - Brown People - Were Looked At As The 'others.'

They Say Now In America That Final Cut Doesn't Mean Anything. As Harvey Weinstein Said To Some Film-maker, 'you Can Have Final Cut. I'll Open Your Film In Arkansas.'

My Films, No One Else Will Do.