There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.

I love working in cinema - it can be in any language!

I am deeply romantic and a genuine yet complex person.

I dont want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.

Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it.

There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the Universe. Painting for me is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.