Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

If you approach India in the right way, you have so much to learn there about people, and there's so many people. It's such an extraordinary setup, and it's so bewildering how it manages to get through somehow, you can only wonder at it.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.