When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made. . . . There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.
Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.
If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.
It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.
Time is what death needs to grow people in.
I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It’s very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.