What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

The passion for self improvement is the love for reading, learning and writing.

Faced with a choice, do both.

I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you're having them.

Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey.

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.

It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.