But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

An outsider can see some things much better.

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.

Love powers my heart and color powers my soul.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

The more you love, the more you awaken the divinity within.

Whether it be in the sun, the rain, or the snow, You should always have fun, wherever you go.Think of all the amusing things you can do, To bring much laughter and happiness too.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.

The free electoral process is one of the things that outsiders envy most about this country. The distinctly American two-party system is perpetuated through that process.