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

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

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!

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.

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

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?

If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.