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.

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.

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

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

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

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