I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.
There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.
I've been fortunate to work with some amazing Asian filmmakers in independent film.
Indian audience has a mindset that a movie which does well at film festivals will necessarily be slow and boring.
Since I was 20, I wanted to make a short film and send it to international short film festivals. It never happened. I became too big a star to indulge in those things.
On the world stage, Australians are very good short filmmakers.
When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
I did Tamil film, 'Mehandi Circus.' I want to do Bangla cinema and other regional and foreign languages.
Korean films have always been distributed to international audiences as arthouse films.
I don't think international cinema is ready to embrace mainstream Indian cinema unconditionally. Even Mira Nair's 'Monsoon Wedding' didn't get to the Oscars after being nominated for the Golden Globe Awards.
I don't set out to make a film for festivals abroad.
I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.
I think, for an artiste, it's important to be aware of world cinema.
I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
Other countries are open to purchasing foreign short films because they have a market for them.
I've always been interested in showing our films to international audiences. The easiest way is through the festival circuit, a big marketing platform for films that aren't big enough to be in the mainstream race.
