I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

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.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

If I fall and break my neck, will you say something nice at my funeral?" "Like 'Kyler was usually more graceful?

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

I live my life outside of the box because when I die they're going to put me into one!

Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.

Tolerance is the assumption of superiority

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.