Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think, the best place to be. You've done the homework, you've learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.

I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued.