“In the industry, you do need some ethics – if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry.”

In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.

If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

I only want to do better work. That’s the focus of my life.

Corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies.

I have had 50 drinks in one go!

Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible.

I don’t see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don’t get scared.

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

To make a film and to sell it to the distributors you need a name.

It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.

Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.

Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

There are two types of films – one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

When one door opens, so does another one.

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

Magicians disappear all the time, but as soon as a regular person does it, everyone is all scared. “Tom’s gone!” “Is he a magician?” “No.” “Then let’s print up some flyers!”

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.