You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing.

Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.

I always believe that my films should give some hope to the man who comes to watch them for those three hours. If he goes home on an optimistic note, I would feel satisfied at having done my duty.

I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one.

There are only two types of cinema - good or bad.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

What is the point of making the film if the man doesn't marry the girl?

I'm not making films just to be bold.

Life is difficult and those who make us laugh are angels.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

Do you know invisible determination and effort will always accomplish visible distinction and excellence?

Worry is the sin we're not afraid to commit.

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.

All our good works and good intentions can't solve our sin problem.

If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the great religious expressions.

Clear declaration of truth makes a difference in people's lives. That is what changes hearts. That is what the Holy Ghost can confirm in the hearts of God's children.

God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.