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

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

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

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.

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.

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