In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.

In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.

They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time.

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that.

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.

It wasn't until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) in my left breast. I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer. So I was very lucky.

I never really considered myself an actor because I never pursued it.

The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

Few characters in history are indispensable.

Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.

There is a fire inside. Sit down beside it. Watch the flames, the ancient, flickering dance of yourself.

No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for 'we' are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.