For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when...

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

It’s flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it’s not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it’s the only picture you’ve ever made.

Man’s liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

This life is not man’s own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine ‘plot.’

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change… you will change.

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it’s a very safe place.

Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson’s Column – pigeons dump on you because you’re there.

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It’s almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

Everything that’s realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it’s only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

I need to feel like the work I’m doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get...

What’s nice about what we have is when you enter the set, the world of film, it becomes this real cocoon, very different from all the publicity. That’s the fun part.

I’ll have periods when I write and periods when I don’t. But you don’t want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that’s no good. To...

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.