I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm very used to being in India now and to working with actors and directors I'm comfortable with because I know them already.
My whole career, only one person has stepped up to back me. All these people say they like your films. They say this and they say that, but no one actually does anything.
On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.
Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that.
When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.
I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.
I am a director's actress in general - I depend a lot on them.
I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.