All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.

I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

Cinema is an art form.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

Films are like oxygen for me.

I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.

You deserve a full time play

Why is it you tell me the truth only when you've fallen asleep? It's then that you visit me.

What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade.

...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world.