It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

India is my kid sister.

We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. It's still in the fifteenth century or whatever. And Christianity in the fifteenth century, after all, was full of inquisitions and burnings at the stake, and so on and so on. So give Islam time, and it will reach the point of maturity that other religions have. But Mormonism is much younger than Islam, and it's got there already. So I don't think that's an argument that works.