The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

Cinema is an art form.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

Films are like oxygen for me.

I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.

I always want to look unattractive, it's more fun. I like playing opposites, people who aren't attractive who think they are pretty. That's always interesting to me.

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

Our way lies not in human ingenuity, but in a return to God.

I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

...You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.

One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.