Come a crisis, we want other people.

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.

I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar.

The awards season gives a chance for independent films to have a bit of longevity in the press and the media.

People will listen to you when you become the ‘Embodiment of Love’ [Prem Swaroop]. When can you become the ‘Embodiment of Love’? When you do not look for laws or rules

In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.

To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

You only live once, life is really short.. don't let anything minuscule like that keep you down. Keep your head up.

It's beyond me how anybody can look at these protestors and call them anything other than what they are: anti-American, anticapitalist, pro-Marxist communists.