I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.

What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'