The most interesting part of IIFA is that I get to meet filmmakers from India. I just attended a symposium on Satyajit Ray with Rituparno Ghosh and others. It was just so satisfying

I think it's really important not to be so judgmental and not to be so fearful. Try to have confidence in yourself. Don't depend so much on what others say about you or want you to be.

To make a film is very difficult - it doesn't make a difference whether you are a man or a woman

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Even though ashrams... probably still exist in India, you don't find a child widow anymore.

My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to change because there are no such things as ideal conditions.

We cannot force our self to stay longer with something,situation or with the person who we don't really like . The best decision is to move on so then we can stay happy with our life style.

I write mostly as a director. That's why my screenplays are very detailed. So I get into the images I see. I like that.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries.

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.

Once you attach your personality to a proposition, people start reacting to the personality and stop reacting to the proposition.

Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife.

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Confidence comes from within and as long as you are putting forth a respectable effort to take good care of yourself, you should feel confident about that path.