When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

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

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

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.

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

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.

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