It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

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.

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.

Love has value even though we can’t measure it. Silence has meaning even though we can’t understand it.

Once you understand pain, You will never be able to share it with others

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect. ("Miss Esperson")

Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.

You can't break up what was never together. But my heart didn't get that memo.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing. That's important to me, in any work I do.

Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.

When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.