Every Film Is A Political

I Am An Independent Film-maker First And Foremost. I Have Always Cut My Own Cloth.

You Know, The Sad Thing Of Post-9/11, Which Was Of Course Horrific, Was That The City In Which I Felt Completely At Home For Two Decades, Suddenly People Like Us - Brown People - Were Looked At As The 'others.'

Americans Are Not Used To Being Bombed In Their Beds, But If You Come From Anywhere Outside America, It's Not Highly Unusual.

If We Don't Tell Our Own Stories, No One Else Will.

It Took Me Three Years To Learn To Dress In The American Way, Especially In Winter. That Was Just Like Me. I Barely Wear Socks Even Now.