Kalki is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I am madly in love with her.

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

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

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.

Life's situations are like a set of cards in your hands.You cannot change the cards, but you can surely play with them in your own unique way.

When you confront, you save yourself a lot of sorrow.

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.

There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It's about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Everything is sacred and nothing is sacred.

The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create.