You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.

If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then dont get crazy, see what happens.

Never underestimate the power of your sister.

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

I'm too old to be forced.

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.

Seenu rang the gong, and the eyes shut themselves in silence, and the brahmin heart and the weaver heart and pariah heart seemed to beat the one beat of Siva dancing

In theory man is put at the center of everything but in practice he is barely allowed to sit on the sidelines

Carbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.

You never want to be pigeonholed into something and have people think, "Oh, that's the guy we call for this particular thing."

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.

By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

We are bound by our limitations to believe.