I prefer fact to fiction.

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.

On my last day of shooting, I'd be happy to say 'Cut, it's a wrap' and fall off the twig.

If you are directing, you have the opportunity to put your signature on the bottom of the frame. You have the opportunity to say, "This is what I believe. That is my credo. That is what I wish to state."

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.