“The irony is palpable – technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.”

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding.

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place.

Make films whenever and however you can – don’t take no for an answer.

People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.

All down the ages we see how blood has stained the surface of the earth; but now a ray of greater light has come

No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai.

Man’s intelligence is greater, spirituality is beginning to grow, and a time is surely coming when the religions of the world will be at peace.

And it must traverse all conditions, for its passage and movement through the conditions of existence will be the means of its acquiring perfections.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.

None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]