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!

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

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

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.

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.

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

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