When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 a.m. — that first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other.

In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.

I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

I spent 15 years of my career trying to convince people that Indian cinema is relevant. I am so proud of Indian cinema and I am so proud of my Indian roots. The IIFAs are doing a great job to this effect.

True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.