I'm Not A 'star Wars'

If You Approach India In The Right Way, You Have So Much To Learn There About People, And There's So Many People. It's Such An Extraordinary Setup, And It's So Bewildering How It Manages To Get Through Somehow, You Can Only Wonder At It.

I've Sort Of Escaped My Background, As People Often Do, Through Art And Culture.

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.

I Haven't Got Anything Against Films That Are About The Minutia Of Relationships Or Customs, But I Love Extremes.

If I Was American, I Think I'd Live In New York, Because I Like That East Coast Mentality. There's Nothing Wrong With Hollywood. If You Want To Be A Big Time Filmmaker, You Should Go To Hollywood.