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

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.

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

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

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

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

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