As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

I have such awful skin; it doesn't matter what magic serum they think they're putting on - I'll usually break out.

I have a variety of readers from across the diasporic community, not just from South Asia. I like to write large stories that include all of us - about common and cohesive experiences which bring together many immigrants, their culture shocks, transformations, concepts of home and self in a new land.

The only reasons we don’t have what we want in life are the reasons we create why we can’t have them.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

I've only written two novels, neither of them published, where the book is dominated by a male point of view; in the 'Onyx Court' series, it's split roughly 50/50.

There is one thing we must appreciate about the disasters They are perfectly just when they do their jobs

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

The alliance with air Berlin is attractive for me. I can use the whole sales network of the air Berlin and 24 percent of my own airline at air Berlin sold.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

The reason I quit fashion was that I had had enough of spending my time always being on my knees, making other people look amazing and fabulous.

Be a little kinder than you have to.

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

I feel very badly about anybody that's sick and in a wheelchair or not doing well. But you know, you have to go, 'Life is a poker game, and we're going to play our cards somehow.'

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Embrace your weirdness!

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

The essence of being human is that in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet we can love some persons and some things in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

I just remember when I came out of film school - and I loved film school - that the industry was such a mystery. How to break in, and once you are in, how to make a film; that is such a large undertaking. There are thousands of pitfalls.

I'm trying to grow more limbs in order to multitask at a greater rate and I'm also investigating the possibilities of cloning. Because nothing would be more useful than having multiples of me, and that way, I could do all of the things I'd like to do in the short amount of time we all have here.