“It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.”
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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.'
In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.
Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.
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.
