My films, no one else will do.

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.

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

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.

Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.

I'm down to Earth, a lover of music, making music and making love. I love to make people happy and I think I'm basically a good person … despite what you might read about me.

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing