Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.

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.

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.

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.

Silence is the song of eternity

What we earn isn't our worth. Our worth is so much more

Wade straight through life, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and heart open.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

I don't worry about getting tired. I try not to let it guide me as far as how much I'm going to play. I play with my heart.

We are defined by how we use our power.

The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

There's something bad in everything good and something good in everything bad.

I don't mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I'm used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.