She added, “Finally, we then kind of learn to work with new groups of people, critical directors, actors, and there are all kinds of people. One of the things that you end up doing when you choose good stories is that you also choose good people. I am doing more work right now than I have in a very long time, and it’s so exciting and exhilarating and beautiful. I am trying to find that balance. So, some of the things that I used to do before, like if a producer asks me to work for 15 hours, excluding the travel time, I can’t do that. Even if you’re shooting in Mumbai or anywhere, your travel time to get to shoot is one to one and a half hours. This makes your workday about a 17- or 18-hour workday. As a mother, I can’t do an 18-hour workday non-stop. If I’m shooting for 21 days or 30 days or 35 days, I can’t be doing 18-hour workdays for 5 days. That will leave me with no time to handle many of the things that I need to. Then it’s a certain approach that comes from a place where you want to be collaborative; you don’t want to be disrupted. But at the same time, I think it’s important for everyone to recognise that there is a way to work and we have to make work happen within a certain discipline. We cannot push each other in a way where we don’t have time to do the things that we also need to do as we work.”
