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"If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it."
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"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!"

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

"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."

"Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain."

"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."
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"Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie."

"Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives."

"Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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