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If You Approach India In The Right Way, You Have So Much To Learn There About People, And There's So Many People. It's Such An Extraordinary Setup, And It's So Bewildering How It Manages To Get Through Somehow, You Can Only Wonder At It.

I Want People To Leave The Cinema Feeling That Something's Been Confirmed For Them About Life.

Some Of Us Are Interested In Directors, But Really The Vast Majority Of Us Are Interested In Actors. You Experience The Films Through The Actors, So They're All Locked Into Your Imagination In Some Kind Of Layer Of Fantasy Or Hatred Or Wherever They Settle Into Your Imagination.

To Be A Film-maker, You Have To Lead. You Have To Be Psychotic In Your Desire To Do Something. People Always Like The Easy Route. You Have To Push Very Hard To Get Something Unusual, Something Different.

I Don't Want To Make Pompous, Serious Films.