I Like To Rehearse With The Actors

I Prefer To Be Subcultural Rather Than Mass-cultural. I'm Not Interested In Hitting The Vein Of The Mainstream.

America Is A Very Venal Place; Everything Has To Be Sold There. You Can Repackage Your Own S**t And Sell It If It Is Marketed In The Right Way. The Motivation Is To Sell. It's So Illogical And Strange To Me. It's Such A Disposable Culture And Yet I Feel Comfortable Being American.

The Limits Of Control Is Not Surrealism, But It Is An Experiment In Which Expectations Are Deliberately Removed: Expectations For Narrative Form, For Action In A Film, For Certain Emotional Content. We Wanted To Remove Those Things And See If We Could Still Make A Film That Was A Beautiful Film Experience, With Deliberately Removing Things Many People Would Expect.

I Wanted To Make An Indian Character Who Wasn't Either A) The Savage That Must Be Eliminated, The Force Of Nature That's Blocking The Way For Industrial Progress, Or B) The Noble Innocent That Knows All And Is Another Cliche. I Wanted Him To Be A Complicated Human Being.

I Thought The Limits Of Control Could Be Interpreted In Two Ways: As The Limits Of One's Self-control; And As The Limits Of Allowing Other People's Control Over One's - Consciousness - Which I Kind Of Thought Was A Double Meaning That Was Appropriate.