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

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!

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

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?

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time.

I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.