Speaking about India, he added, “I love the history. I am 90 per cent through the Bhagavad Gita. To be reading that and to be here... my inner Arjuna is being channelled. I am going to spend some more time here for sure. And I love the food at Akshay’s home of all things,” he signed off with a smile.

Why did you want to share this book with your son?Because it's interesting that no matter how successful you get, it is really difficult to shake your mindset and I still have a poor person mentality.

I was reading Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, and he talks about the concept of 10,000 hours. That you don't really settle into any level of mastery until 10,000 hours, and I feel like I've just completed my 10,000 hours of story structure and filmmaking.

We have a quote that I put up in the house from Pema Chödrön: "Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us." We call it leaning into the sharp parts. Something hurts, lean in.

I heard an idea in The Alchemist about a shepherd leading from behind. And that’s the really beautiful approach that Guy takes. For the first five or six takes, he doesn’t say anything. He just watches, and he lets you do it, and he sees what everybody’s choices are naturally.