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People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it’s true, you don’t. You don’t even remember people who disappear.
I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.
Movies about space raise those questions of what we’re doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.
I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
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.
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.
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it’s humor that’s often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose – although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
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.