I may be boring, but that's okay; I don't want to hard-sell myself.

I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

In the role of Miss Munim, I had credibility as an individual.

I was never meant to sit at home.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.

Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.

The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

Wikipedia is a non-profit. It was either the dumbest thing I ever did or the smartest thing I ever did.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.

Arrayed in a new body another mother may someday give birth so that with stronger limbs and brighter mind the old soul shall take the road to earth again.

It's important for me to really play with the traditions and keep things simple and easy. Ultimately I believe in animal instincts - I think they often end up winning out.

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.