Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

Time never changes—we change. We complain that time is the culprit which forces us to change.

There's a mathematics to nesting, I'm sure, that explains how length of stay + space available = accumulating way too much stuff.

Globally, democracies have also acted in ways that suggest an outright renunciation of their principles at home.

Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.

Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?

If I'm president, we're not going to have people dying on the streets. I don't call it a mandate, I just say it's common sense.

Once you reach people on an authentic emotional level, they will reward your faith in them with their belief in you, and they will mobilize to get the job done.

Worry is the activity of a mind which does not understand its connection with Me.

The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is because we do not have eternal thinking.

As filmmakers, you're not working on just one project, you're producing something, directing something, shooting something, and so it becomes hard to do it by yourself.