Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.

To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.

Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.

If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.

If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.

I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

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