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Usually When I'm Making A Movie, What I Have In Mind First, For The Visuals, Is How We Can Stage The Scenes To Bring Them More To Life In The Most Interesting Way, And Then How We Can Make A World For The Story That The Audience Hasn't Quite Been In Before.

My Experience With Casting Children Is That... The Whole Movie Is Going To Rest On Their Shoulders, So You Have To Set Aside Time And Wait For The Perfect People To Appear.

India Is A Place Where One Of The Great Pleasures For A Foreigner Is That You're Constantly Surprised. Everywhere You Look Is Something That Is Either Funny, Or Very Moving, But There Is Always So Much That Is So Unexpected.

The Only Thing That Takes Away From It Is When They Steal Some Music From One Of My Movies And Put It In A Tv Commercial. I Am Not Crazy About Influencing Tv Commercials. But If I Legitimately Influence Someone Making A Movie, I Think That Is Really Flattering.

If Somebody Asks Me About The Themes Of Something I'm Working On, I Never Have Any Idea What The Themes Are. . . . Somebody Tells Me The Themes Later. I Sort Of Try To Avoid Developing Themes. I Want To Just Keep It A Little Bit More Abstract. But Then, What Ends Up Happening Is, They Say, 'well, I See A Lot Here That You Did Before, And It's Connected To This Other Movie You Did,' And . . . That Almost Seems Like Something I Don't Quite Choose. It Chooses Me.