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This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.

It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

In India, the films are not looked upon just as entertainment. They're a way of life.

Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit.

Hollywood has a longer pre-production period and they juggle shooting schedules more carefully for each cast. In Korea, we shoot day and night without much break.

A lot of people in India are not that into non-Indian films or Western films.

Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.

We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

I loved having Indian take-aways on a Friday night in Liverpool, but it's so different in the real India.

Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.