I grew up in and identify with and that she works and exists in.

I have many projects in various states of development. Some are on paper and some are in my head. But as I go on, I feel the need to be guided in my choices.

What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.

The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.

I didn't really think in terms of clichés or non-clichés.

When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying.

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.

Unity does not exist in the world. Only when the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants moksha [liberation], does unity arise. Unity cannot prevail without Gnan [knowledge of the self].

Well did you call the hypothetical hardware store and buy a theoretical chainsaw?-- Pam to Jessica, True Blood

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.

I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it. Just go on, and do what I've got to do.

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

If you do something long enough, you uncover life lessons along the way.

I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book