If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats.

I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.

What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?

When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.

I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean.

I think it's important to encourage gluttony in all its formats.