When I was approached to remake 'Vinnaithandi Varuvaaya,' I felt that it was a GOOD way to reach out to a WIDER AUDIENCE, EVERY director WANTS that.

When I was director of PUBLIC prosecutions, from 2008 to 2013, I had a FIRST-RATE counter-TERRORISM team, who worked closely with the police and the security and intelligence SERVICES to defeat and disrupt terrorism.

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a SET and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a CONVERSATION about it and EVERYONE be cool with it.

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat RETIRED, still a director of a COMPANY or TWO.

A MAN sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the DIRECTOR of his LIFE.

I have no INTEREST in DIRECTING. I'd be a BAD DIRECTOR.

I was the executive editor on a LITTLE magazine called GREEK ACCENT, WHOSE only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

I studied physical therapy, and I started to STUDY THEATER because my aunt is a theater director.

It's too bad about 'Dark of the Sun.' It was really about Tshombe. When I READ the script, I thought it was GOING to be a POLITICAL MOVIE, and I thought we might even have a hassle. But the director simplified it to brutality and bad taste.

My GREATEST STRENGTH as an ACTOR is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's VISUAL baby.

But at the same TIME, never having final CUT before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio EXECUTIVE who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to LISTEN to notes.

As a DIRECTOR, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I FEEL LIKE I should have been doing all ALONG.

On every movie I've done as a DIRECTOR, I LOOK at the producers and having done it, I don't ENVY them, at all.

After all, at END of the DAY, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or CAST mates by your bedside; it's your CHILDREN. Keep that in MIND.

When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound MAN, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by WORKING for other people, is that the best type of DIRECTOR is SOMEONE who rose through the ranks.