The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.

Realize your strengths, accept your weaknesses, but never become someone you don't recognize.

I've got a great sense of humor.

If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.

I've never made love to a ghost but I have made love to men who are a few years away from becoming a ghost.

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

'Lizzie McGuire' was my big thing when I was younger. I did buy some pencils and back-to-school stuff of hers because she was on it. I loved her.

Biology makes us Mothers & Fathers, whats in the heart makes us Mom's and Dad's

We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that (upper) register? I doubt it.

It is deeply unfair to task writers of color with unique responsibilities that we don't assign to all writers.