Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day's schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.
We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.
Look at YouTube, how many talented people there are. It's a whole new world of how to express yourself. I don't know how to work that world, but take advantage of it.
There are certain filmmakers I'd like to work with that I don't think would take a risk with me, because I could be distracting in their film. It'll take a couple films to prove to them that it's worth the risk.
I just enjoy both working and not working. And fortunately, I work enough where I get that out of my system, and then we take a few days off, take a rest.
When a beautiful woman does not steal, she takes you.
He who divides and shares, always takes the best part.
He that would jest must take a jest, or else to let it alone were best.
Who is tired of happy days, let him take a wife.
If you are planning to travel where corn grows, you should take a sickle with you.
If you forgive the fox for stealing your chickens, he will take your sheep.
Petty thieves are hanged, you take off your hat to the big ones.
Don't even take a bath with fools, because they'll throw away the soap.
The man who takes legal action often loses an ox to win a cat.
A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.
Take a close look at today, because yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is barely a vision.
When the wolf invites you in, you had better take your dog.
Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
Eggs may be smarter than the chickens, but it doesn't take long for them to stink.
