I make that distinction only because I came to it strictly as someone who was just a lover of storytellers and cinematic storytellers.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.

Life is full of all sorts of things, and I never expected to be a part of this. I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer. So you never know.

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.

The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against. But one trait stands out: the willingness to risk.

Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.