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

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

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

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

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

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!

They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.