India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

They say crying makes the heart lighter

Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

One doesn’t question a miracle.

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.

I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'

Great stories changed our heart and penetrated our soul.

Be careful who you tell your secrets to because when situations change... sometimes, so do people.

I had a dream about you… but I don’t know you…who are you?

As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so. No laws will stop this.

I have a saying: 'I'm good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.'

Never let your small business make you small-minded.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else.