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Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.

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

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

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

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.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

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

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?

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.

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

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