Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.
Not only did we read a lot at home, we also watched a lot of films. So I had already seen a lot of films that were about the crucifixion and the temptation of Christ, like Bible history and the Ten Commandments - stuff like that.
My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.
When I was really young, I was obsessed with Bollywood. Then I got exposed to world cinema, and I wanted to be a part of it. Then I was exposed to theatre, and I only wanted to do theatre.
My holidays in Hyderabad would be spent on films sets visiting my father and uncle, or in the studios; I was gradually drawn to films.
I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.
I did not have any inclination towards cinema. The atmosphere at home was not filmy, and we would never discuss anything related to films.
When I was growing up, I was watching fairly standard American cinema.
I spent half my life in a boarding school where we were shown only the sporadic wholesome classic like 'The Sound Of Music.' So, I am not familiar with most of the works of the acting greats in Bollywood, Hollywood, or Tamil-Telugu cinema.
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
My dad is a screenwriter, so he always used to watch movies for inspiration when I was a baby. I would watch movies with him, I guess, in the background.
