Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.