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

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

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

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

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