We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.

What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.

sleep is such a luxury, which i cant afford.

Happiness is spending time with the one you love without a worry or a care.

It's sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

Tom Ridge now says we don't have to run out and put plastic sheets all over the house. Great, tell that to my dead parakeet.

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.

Imperfections make someone perfect to me.

I believe that we should do anything we can to minimize abortion and not to encourage it.

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.