The more emotion I put in to it the harder I rock.

You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.

A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths

Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do.

It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.

Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.