If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.

I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up.

While I was watching you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind as summer clouds drift across the sky.

I am very concerned about the environment and psychological health of this beautiful planet.

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.

You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.

She wondered which was worse—living your whole life staring at yourself or waiting your whole life for someone to stare back at you.

Action is where sacrifice is honoured and where you require persistence and courage to endure all that life throws in your direction.

Hold tight, and I promise to do the same. We don't need a safety net Zena. We have each other.

This is our life

The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.