Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

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.

Happiness is there when thoughts and actions are in harmony.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

I like to keep active. I've got too much energy not to.

We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.

What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

When you're directing, you're right at the coal face, always exhausted, often emotional - and I'll enjoy being a couple of steps back from that and simply helping where I can.

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.