I'm a good Indian girl, I still don't do sex scenes in my movies because my mum would kill me!

It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are you have to be able to express the big idea of a film in a sentence or two.

The reason I do what I do is that I find that Asian community gives me an endless source of humour. When I entered the filmmaking business, my whole purpose was to promote and make us visible because we were very much on the margins. So, I wanted to make us mainstream. My work has helped to mainstream-ise the Asian community.

If a good actor wants a role, they'll do whatever it takes to get the part. Directors are the same. We do 'meetings', not auditions: that tells you a whole lot more about an actor, too.