Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
If the movie’s well made and it’s about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
I’ve never wanted to do something where I’d berate the audience.
I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time.
I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.
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.
Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.