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

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

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

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 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!

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

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