Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand.

I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account.

I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.

'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?

I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.

You're never going to truly wrap your head around things that take a lifetime to study while making a movie.

Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type.

I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers we outgrow acquaintances libraries principles etc. at times before they're worn out and times-and this is the worst of all-before we have new ones.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

Fight despite the crowds of the walking dead

I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

“A living poem” had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

I'm very much an admirer of people who are reaching for things and trying to survive.

If you're gonna judge people by crimes, you get into a quagmire. If you're gonna judge people by themselves, by who and what they are, that's a different ballgame.