If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are. On a certain level, everyone throws ideas into the hopper. It's not like the actors are wind-up dolls that you push out onto the floor, play with, then put back in the box. You get people around you who you trust; the writer, the producer, the director and all the actors all contribute.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.

I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.