The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conduc….

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain..

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts..

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time ar….

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years..

We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we ha….

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I….

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie..

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck..

In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons..

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box..

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….

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists..

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….

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….

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..

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..