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

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

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.

If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.

But you would still settle for me if I were that last, wouldn't you? Women are like that. They have to have a male.

I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.

Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.

Their mother had always stressed the importance of taking care of yourself first, your family second and everyone else not at all.. darkest surrender

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

The whole point to life-that you have to experience yourself, but then when you do you realize that you've learned so much from the bad things that sometimes they're better than the good things.