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When you're a director, and you look at Scorsese's work, he's always challenging us to push the envelope and break the rules. Someone like that is necessary and a godsend.

Scorsese will only work with brilliant material. And everyone wants to work with him.

I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.

The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.