The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.

It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

Goods produced under conditions which do not meet a rudimentary standard to decency should be regarded as contraband and not allowed to pollute the channels of international commerce.

The improved means to the unimproved end.

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.