I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.

'Rakta Charitra' was more about human conflict than politics.

Sridevi is the most beautiful and the most sensuous woman God ever created, and I think He creates such exquisite pieces of art like her only once in a thousand years.

I'm an atheist, and I don't believe in ghosts.

When you do anything completely different from a beaten path, many tend to pounce on you.

I understand emotions more than anyone else. I study emotions like a biologist studies various species.

Great films happen, and no one can make them on intention.

Basically, I am an anti-social person.

I have a habit of constantly dreaming and waking up every once in a while in the night to check out my cell phone, and I suddenly saw a message that Sridevi is no more... I thought that either it's a nightmare or a hoax, and I went back to sleep.

Fundamentally speaking, bodies age; feelings don't.

I don't have the time to think about what someone else thinks of me because I'm busy making films.

I don't believe in gratitude.

Everyone can have a crush on anyone, be it on a real person or a celebrity.

The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.

I can go all over the world with Skype.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled me in. His love is unconditional love.

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.