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.

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.

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

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

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.

Destiny, if I could sit across the porch from God, I'd thank Him for Lending me you.....

Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.

Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.

No matter what our circumstance, we can find a reason to be thankful.

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

It's not the goods that matter. It's the theft itself. That's what counts.

I cheat my boys every chance I get, I want to make 'em sharp.