Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.

American literature has always been immigrant.

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game otherwise she'd make mincemeat of you.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.