Now Im back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Say what is true, although it may be bitter and displeasing to people

Over these years, I have irrevocably transferred a significant part of the shareholding in Wipro, amounting to 39% of the shares of Wipro, to a trust.

Everything is always going through changes in terms of attitudes or mood.

I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

When you are hunger for God, He will fill you.

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you

The films I liked were European films - Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, François Truffaut.