I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.
I always maintain that the film industry and film people across the globe are more or less the same.
Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.
Some films clearly seem to divide people. And I do think there's something incredibly exciting about the commonality of us as human beings, which some films are lucky enough to tap into.
Whether the film is a Hindi film or in a South Indian language, I don't think it matters.
We're all humans. Any human can tell any human's story. I don't want to have this conversation about black film or white film anymore. I wanna have conversations about film.
Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.
What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
When a film is released, anywhere in the country, exactly in the same place people laugh, cry, get bored, what is that, but commonality.
Film is universal. All the countries of the world are making films. Hollywood is the only major unsubsidized center for films. To my knowledge all others are at least partially subsidized. I'm glad Hollywood isn't.
There is no difference working for Hindi or South films; the only difference is the language.
