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

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

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

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.

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

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.