I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.

Today I AM grateful for wealth. There are many seeds planted inside me that are growing and pouring endless financial prosperity onto my life.

How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?

When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

"Doctor, I have a ringing in my ears." "Don't answer!"

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

There's so many intangible forces that come into play when making a film, I have no idea what the public will ultimately think of something that I do, let alone critics.

Most ferocious was Kobe. Fiercest, most competitive, it was Kobe. D Wade is second after that.

The teen years are extremely serious and everything matters and every insult really hurts. I know there are cliques and bullying. And you don't yet ­understand that it will all go away.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.