I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy.

Making money isn't hard in itself, what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to

I can do what I dream of doing, one breath and one step at a time.

In cricket- be fit, be alert and be Sachin.

Lord, I believe it's raining all over the world.

Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.

I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don't feel my game resembles his though.

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don't care.

You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.

I love weekends. Just like everyone else, I get to rest on weekends and go out with friends. I hate Mondays.