I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.

The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.

Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it use you.

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

I don't want to get pigeonholed just doing just family films and fantasy films... I don't really want to get pigeonholed just doing anything in particular.

Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.

With courage, you can confidently chase your dreams.

Enlightenment is to replace your own self with the self of the universe!

The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray.

What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is 'glory'? What kind of victory is 'glorious'?

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?

If anyone thinks Indian Muslims will dance to their tune, they are delusional. Indian Muslims will live for India. They will die for India. They will not want anything bad for India.

If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.