Films are like oxygen for me.

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

Cinema is an art form.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.

If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.

Words are weapons of war.

Be careful that the cost of weighing the purchase of an object does not exceed its intrinsic value.

I like how you smile and how you laugh. I like how you love and defend your family and I like how you're trying to love mine. I love how you trust. But mostly, Emily, I love you.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

With definite goals you release your own power, and things start happening.