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.

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.

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.

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

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

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.