A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can't believe. What you see and believe in is very much what I'm interested in.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.

The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future.

To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood.

The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.

May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.

In the beginning it wasn't bodybuilding competition that motivated me, it was just getting muscles and getting big. And certainly it has evolved for me since then. I think I'm still evolving.

Lionel [Richie] said, "Yeah, I learned chords and stuff playin' against your albums."

People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.

The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India.