Everything I make starts very personally.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

Western films don't do very well in India.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

I feel more human when I compare the cuteness of a lizard to a newborn child's sweetness. Both are God's creations filled with precious innocence

I'm perfectly natural the way I am. Why can't you humans ever understand that I might not want to be afflicted with gender?

His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure.

I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of li

I believe the only limitations are the ones that we accept.

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.

I see something new in 'Gosford Park' every time I watch it.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.