"I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs."

"Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens."

"Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine."

"I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood."

"Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is."

"Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within."