I have only one simple ambition when I make a film. That it should be the best I have made so far. With 'Kadal' it was no different.

Sometimes casting falls in place easily and sometimes it takes a while. Fifty per cent of my job is done when I get the right actors.

My job as a director is to communicate, and I want to communicate to all.

Once the film is released, once my job is over, I can't see the film again.

As a musician, to be part of anything that promotes peace is very rewarding.

None of the black abolitionist newspapers, the first of which appeared in 1827, was in existence after the Civil War.

A jolt is necessary. Europe must reaffirm it values of freedom, solidarity, peace. The EU must be understood and controlled by its citizens. I will do everything to secure profound change rather than decline.

War diminishes both civil and economic rights.