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"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."
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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!"
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"Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists."
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"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."
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"Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain."
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"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."
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"Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box."
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"Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives."
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"I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history."
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"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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