To me, strange is just another way of saying unusual. And unusual is just another way of saying special

You must remember, all stories start somewhere.

I grew up in a village of about 800 people surrounded by lakes and woods, and I think it's made a definite impact on me.

But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.

This for me was home, and for the visitors, Kashmir".

One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one’s fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?

If you are lacking confidence in something, just keep trying and don’t give up.

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

People have a copyright on their own life.

Writing and directing just sort of fell into my lap.

The one thing about me is that I don’t even know where I’ll end up, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing but I know that I’ll never really stop.

Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.

Go on, dear brother; but an inch of time remains, and then eternal ages roll on for ever--but an inch on which we can stand and preach the way of salvation to a perishing world.

We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.