I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

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