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" I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history. "
Own
Sense
Were
" I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do! "
White
Why
You
" 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. "
Say
Once
Depth
" If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it. "
See
Things
Well
" If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going. "
You
Eating
Tide
" I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know. "
Respect
Like
Cinema
" I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS. "
Like
Better
DVDs
" I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public. "
Know
Stupid
You
" Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box. "
Think
Ability
Box
" In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons. "
According
Plan
India
" 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. "
Dangerous
Result
More
" I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years. "
Two
Think
Three
" 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. "
Stream
Feeling
Think
" I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around. "
Time
Job
Easy
" I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts. "
Street
Man
Sometimes
" It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time. "
Because
Someone
Hard
" I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience. "
Never
Audience
Something
" 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. "
Best
Life
Joy
" Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists. "
Science
Seems
Thinking
" Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film. "
Full
Will
Part
" Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family. "
Sitting
Family
Down
" The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra. "
Own
Trying
Work
" The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck. "
History
Up
Me
" They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me. "
Thought
Silly
Time
" Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land. "
Watch
Top
Stand
" When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics. "
Truth Is
Look
Politics
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