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

They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.

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

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

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

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