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"I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know."
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"I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts."


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"Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists."
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