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

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

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

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

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 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.