Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

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.

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

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.

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

In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.

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.