I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

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.

You have to do what your heart dictates, " Vivian says. "Do you believe that?""Not sure, actually. It's always annoyingly inconvenient, isn't it, the thing about the heart?

The path to success is not a straight line.

It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off.

Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a union.

You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

We’ll meet the meat.

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.