There's Lots Of Things That Can Be

I Like To Hide Behind My Intellect. But The Truth Is, Unless All Of Us Start Getting Honest About What The Reality Is, Things Aren't Going To Change. If We All Keep Pretending That We Know Stuff And If Everyone Else Would Do What We Knew And Everything Would Be A Better Place, Then Nothing Is Going To Change.

I Always Wanted To Make This Film Or Another Film. I Thought The Worst Thing You Could Do Was To React To Slumdog's Success In Some Way. I Thought It Would Be Really Foolish.

To Force Yourself Out Of The Comfort Zone, The Main Ingredient Is Trying To Work In A World Where You Haven't Been Before, That You Don't Know The Rules Of. And That Involves A Lot Of Research, So You Begin To See Where The Other People Have Been, But You Are Starting From As Vulnerable And As Low A Point As Possible.

To Be A Film-maker, You Have To Lead. You Have To Be Psychotic In Your Desire To Do Something. People Always Like The Easy Route. You Have To Push Very Hard To Get Something Unusual, Something Different.

Some Of Us Are Interested In Directors, But Really The Vast Majority Of Us Are Interested In Actors. You Experience The Films Through The Actors, So They're All Locked Into Your Imagination In Some Kind Of Layer Of Fantasy Or Hatred Or Wherever They Settle Into Your Imagination.