I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.
Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.
Battles are won and lost before they are fought.
Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
Listen to advice, but follow your heart.
Also because few people were watching - aside from a healthy amount of incarcerated people, because M2 was offered in a lot of prisons - I was able to ask really long, kind of muso questions, that they loved. We could really geek out and talk about music for long periods of time, and that tape would just keep rolling and rolling.
They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.
At the end of the day, it's nice to walk away from a set knowing that you're doing a movie that is not just for money and is not just pure entertainment.