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.

When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.