I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

To be honest, there is a tourists' trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

Western films don't do very well in India.

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.