If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.

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

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

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

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

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