Quotes About Author

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

I actually didn't think I was going to do TV because I don't really watch TV. I'm a little bit pretentious, and I do these little indie movies, so I envisioned that more as the path for myself.

I do not differentiate between a commercial and an indie project as long as there is a strong subject and the character in the script is relatable.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

Not all new books carry endorsements, and I wouldn't say that blurbs are indispensable for marketing.

Obviously at the end of the day it's an individual sport.

My constituency, the majority of them are Republicans, but the biggest majority of them are people who really vote for people because of their individuality and because of how hard they work. And that's what I've always done.

'Dhadak' has its own individuality and a story that deserves to be told to a larger audience.

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.

Nobody is going to be as bad for free thinking, right-minded individuals than George Bush.

My parents bought an indoor skatepark in 2003 that was a perfect training facility for me.

My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

I'm not a part of the political industrial complex.

Koch Industries is a multibillion-dollar business.

Malayalam industry is pretty awesome, and I will definitely do a movie in Malayalam. There are some great directors over there.

There are a lot of arrogant men in the entertainment industry. You know there is abuse of power.

I fall into the camp that income inequality is the biggest problem we face.

When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

All of my life and particularly throughout of my public career, I have been talking about the feminization of poverty. And one of the manifestations of the feminization of poverty is the issue of pay inequality in our society.