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!

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?

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

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

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

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