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

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

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

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

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

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?