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

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

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'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.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

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