In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indians in our civilization and when we get them under holding them there until they are thoroughly soaked.

The clash of ideas is not weakness. Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.

We must kill the savage to save the man.

The clash of ideas is not weakness.Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.

Is there such a thing as being too happy?

Imagination is a sacred place.

I've seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon.

It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what.

Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.