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

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

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 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.

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

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

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.