The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.