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

If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

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

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

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