The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.

I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest me very much.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.

Don’t you have dragons to fight so that you started saving girls who don’t need it?

A man becomes Mahadev only when he fights for good.

Yes, he wanted to tell Krystof, it will hurt. Even if you don't get sick like them. It will hurt.

When you are not accepted, dare to be exceptional.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

The power of an attitude is amazing

Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.

Our responsibility as Christians makes us tremble.

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

When you focus on serving, there is no fear in you.