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 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!

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

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

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?

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.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.