“So we all have to bring to the table our own effort or our own passion in whatever way that manifests itself.”

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive.

I’m passionate about it because I think it’s the most direct way to connect to the things that are ineffable.

We have to act united as a people, and that means that every individual has to participate and do their part.

I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.

You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing.

I think winter wear is communal.

I’m a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument.

You can’t expect people to do the right thing or else they will go to hell. We are already in hell!.

We can not be naive and think we can go it alone.

But the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.

It was all about – very selfish in a lot of ways.

I think it’s important that we run that tension between the way things are.

Ethical systems and practices need to look good.

When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate.

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

And I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who’s looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

We made sure that we didn’t talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.

I definitely believe that love conquers all, yes.

I’m present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step.

Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one.

Since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.

Prayer and encouraging words change things. We’re all human. We all go through stuff.

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.