Indian Quotes

I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

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

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

Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.

By getting into distribution and production, I am actually widening my base.

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.

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.

In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.

I never talk about my personal life. After these rumours, I definitely do not want to comment on anything.

It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life.

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

It is, therefore, a fact that anybody who wants to realise Truth or who wants to be humane, must follow non-violent ways of life, otherwise he will not be able to reach the Truth.

In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.

I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal.

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.

I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.

For those who believe in God the matter is simpler still and clearly than anything else: because those who believe in God believe that God is the Creator of the whole Universe and there is nothing that does not come from Him.

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.