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

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?

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

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.

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

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