I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

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!

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.