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You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.

The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.

I feel like we've found an interesting little corner of the sandbox here as far as the way we're telling sci-fi stories. I don't think it's limited to sci-fi - I think anything fantastic can co-exist with people you and I know, and not these hyper-real movie people.

Cinema should always be in touch with the soil of the country. My films celebrate the heartland of India.

Movies are an editor's medium.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.