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.

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

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.

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.

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

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

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