I Trained In The Theatre.

The Great Thing With Film Is That It Doesn't Have An Ego. It's Just A Film. Everybody That Makes Them Has An Ego, And The Problem With Awards And Stuff Like That Is That It Always Affects The Egos, And Everyone Gets Stained By It In Some Way. And That Can Be Fine And Very Innocent, But It Can Be Horrible As Well.

I Always Wanted To Make This Film Or Another Film. I Thought The Worst Thing You Could Do Was To React To Slumdog's Success In Some Way. I Thought It Would Be Really Foolish.

It Just Seduces You When You Read A Story And Your Brain Relates To It. You Recognize Or Connect With It. You Identify With It; You're Bound To.

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 Don't Want To Make Pompous, Serious Films; I Like Films That Have A Kind Of Vivacity About Them.