Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

I've got a lot of opportunities, a lot of love in my life, a lot of things going for me. Still, it's not complete. I know this is not the whole thing. There's much more.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

I think movies probably are a mirror in some way so we can see ourselves in them.