At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
In 1977, hip-hop literally wasn't outside the boroughs. But I was profoundly aware of the city through films like Saturday Night Fever, The French Connection, and Network. I had a friend who visited New York, and I asked him what it was like. He said, "Oh, it's great. Just wear a coat and don't look anyone in the eye."
One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
Western films don't do very well in India.
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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