Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

You wouldn’t get in a car and drive around aimlessly, hoping to eventually arrive at a pleasant destination. So why would you even consider doing this for your business?

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

I think we should all earn our place in the world. [...] We owe the world something. We owe the world everything.