“I love cinema.” — Tommy Lee Jones Quote

I love cinema.

Partnerships are good engines for narrative.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character.

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out.

I am comfortable in my space in Punjabi cinema.

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

Content-driven films can make money - something that is gripping, is a journey of revelation and is relevant is cinema.