"We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry."

"I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that."

"How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time."

"It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation."

"I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour."

"I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched."

"Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do."

"I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do."