It's Not So Much What You Learn

The Individual Will To Survive Is Often Seen As Just That, An Individual Thing. In Fact, It's Sort Of A Gene We All Carry And Like A Network Of Computers It All Contributes In Some Way To When It's Individually Needed.

You Use Elements Of Noir, But You Don't Want It To Be Too Noir-ish. You Don't Want It To Be Advertised As Though You're Asking People To Go And Watch An Updated Noir. I Don't Think They'll Go Do That. They Want To See A Modern Story.

I Have A Philosophy, A Belief, Which I Can See In Many, Many Other Directors That Your Early Work Is Your Best Work, Because You Don't Know What You're Doing.

We're Trying To Learn From [olympic] Beijing, Which Could Be Very Intimidating. We've Learned To Expect It's Power, It Majesty And That It Completes A Cycle Of Certain Types Of Shows... I Don't Think Any Nation Could Do Anything On That Scale. We Haven't Got That Money, And I Don't Think Anybody Would Have The Appetite For That Kind Of Expenditure And That Kind Of Control, So We're Going To Try And Do Something A Bit More Intimate And Try And Start Again... Start A New Cycle For These Kind Of Ceremonies.

It's Not So Much What You Learn About Mumbai, It's What You Learn About Yourself, Really. It's A Funny Old Hippie Thing, But It's True As Well. You Find Out A Lot About Yourself And Your Tolerance, And About Your Inclusiveness.