I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.

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.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

It is good to live and learn.

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.