Then I realised that I was dealing with people who were quite cynical and they didn't necessarily believe what they were saying. Sha has also been criticised sometimes for what some critics, mainly on the east coast, saw as a new-age agenda. I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the east coast. There's also that feeling that they have the right to suggest what you should be doing. But I felt in Georgia and on the east coast generally very squeezed.
People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives.
People always want to keep you in a little box or they need to label you and fix you in time and location. I feel a greater fluidity here. I built it myself. I'm a pagan Bhuddist who was brought up as a Christian. As yet, no one has moved in for the film rights of her own love story but talks are under way with director Deepa Mehta about the filming of By the Light of My Father's Smile and with Pratibha Parmar about filming Possessing the Secret of Joy.