Occupation: Film Director Birth: November 17, 1945
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family..
I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dan….
I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at ho….
In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons..
The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck..
I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once..
Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie..
I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS..
If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it..
I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very excit….
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box..
When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics..
I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience..
Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film..
Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives..
I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know..
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists..
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?.
Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to….
If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you g….
They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension b….