I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minim...
My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.
I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians.
Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.
My mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.
Ben Geisler: Think about it, Fink! Writers come and go; we always need Indians!
[after meeting black pioneers] Indian Chief: [speaks Yiddish, then in English] They darker than us! Woof!
I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema, are exploring some really bold themes.
If I use the word 'khichdi' in my novel, I don't have to get into the trouble of explaining that it is a dish of rice and lentils. My Indian readers know it.
Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.
I'm certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian's DNA.
If you actually get down to the nitty-gritty of the average Pakistani, the average Indian, the average whoever, what you really do know emotionally is that they're exactly the same.
I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.
