"I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture."

"It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness."

"You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination."

"I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes."

"I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course."

"One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something."

"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."

"A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway."