I think it's really important not to be so judgmental and not to be so fearful. Try to have confidence in yourself. Don't depend so much on what others say about you or want you to be.

To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Even though ashrams... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.

My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to change because there are no such things as ideal conditions.

The most interesting part of IIFA is that I get to meet filmmakers from India. I just attended a symposium on Satyajit Ray with Rituparno Ghosh and others. It was just so satisfying

We cannot force our self to stay longer with something,situation or with the person who we don't really like . The best decision is to move on so then we can stay happy with our life style.

I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.

How can I use these [romantic] desires to love him, to serve him as a brother in Christ...

I dream of a planet where the science of the mind, brings the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran, and all other scriptures together and binds them with the golden twine of harmony.

The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.

I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.

Pizza is a circle. Pizza is my life. Pizza is the circle of life.

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.