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

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.

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.

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

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.

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.

You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

The gardener's work is never at at end; it begins with the year, and continues to the next: he prepares the ground, and then he sows it; after that he plants, and then he gathers the fruits.

Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.

I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife who extradited me.

Nobody gets tired of being the champions. We are still trying to go after the title again.

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