"When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics."

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

"I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know."

"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."

"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around."

"I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."

"I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters."

"Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process."