Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Indian is a human being.
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.
In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.
I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.
Gandhi was a strange guy. There was this simplistic manner; but nobody knows what it cost to provide the simple life of Mohandas Gandhi. Nobody. He traveled on a train by himself.
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
I think it would be nice to be a prince.
If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.