India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected. That's part of the reason why people who like it tend to love it.

I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.

I just now put [Robert Altman] down feeling heartbroken but happily and deeply inspired. . . . Wonderful.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.

When something is discovered by people in movie theaters, it's discovered by people who are all together, and there's a sort of feeling of an event about it. And when it's on video, it's like something is being discovered in the library or something. It's like having a second life in public libraries. It's just like individuals, and it's less of a... We can't participate in it the same way.