Raza Jaffrey

I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.

It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.

There isn't really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.