I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think 'Gee there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more that'd be helpful.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt really. In the movies now so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama there's no device It's just about a human being.

I knew that there were black people in Africa of course unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

Even the worst Bond movies there's something to love about them.

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

Basically there's not enough sex in movies that's it. I'm trying to say it people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural guns are not.

I'm doing 'Les Miserables ' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like 'Come on let's do a movie/musical.'

I've seen many many movies over the years and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Wherever you are - be all there.

I can therefore I am.

Set your goals high and don't stop till you get there.

Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

When I was twelve I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.