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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 had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.

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?

I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.

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

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 get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

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 began to fascinate me.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.