We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

How would you complete with people who are more talented, more popular, who get better training, better mentoring and who get their share of luck, without some luck?

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema are exploring some really bold themes.

I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

Remember, there is no perfect time for anything. There is only now.

In Italian, the word for novel is romanzo, "the romance." The English is "novel" - something new. Both of those elements, experimentation and love, are fundamental to the form.

I think we understand people frustration. We certainly don't want to make it worse.

I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me.

Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.