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

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

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

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

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

We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.

I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.