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.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

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.

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.

In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.

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